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Roy Jenkins' Gladstone
Hay Festival 1996,
The Liberal Democrat Peer introduces his Whitbread Award-winning biography of the four times Prime Minister and pre-eminent Victorian politician, redeemer of prostitutes and student of Homer, whose glittering House of Commons career spanned sixty-three years. "Quite simply a masterpiece of the biographer's art" - The Economist.