- Published: 1 March 2011
- ISBN: 9781845951436
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 384
- RRP: $32.99
Pitt the Elder
Man of War
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- Published: 1 March 2011
- ISBN: 9781845951436
- Imprint: Pimlico
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 384
- RRP: $32.99
Close-knit account
Duncan Fallowell, Daily Express
Pitt was the hero...He was, as Edward Pearce argues in this revisionist biography, the show business man of war
The Spectator
Pearce enlivens the narrative with crisp characterisations of the figures on the stage
JWM Thompson, The Oldie
[Pearce] constantly, often illuminatingly and sometimes wittily, draws parallels between the English politics of Pitt's time and more recent events or personalities
The Independent
This is an immensely readable book - informative, scholarly, but never dry
Richard Ormrod, The Tablet
Pearce shrewdly captured the problems involved in interpreting the career of a man who fell under the spell of his own speechifying
E L Devlin, Times Literary Supplement
Dazzling in its ways, glittering with clever insights and provocative comparisons
John Campbell, Mail on Sunday