Jonathan Parry (1)
Auteur van Benjamin Disraeli (Very Interesting People)
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Parry sees this period as establishing the Liberals' main electoral pitch -- that of efficient, responsible government managed by a propertied elite. Though the Peelite Palmerston emerged in the mid-1850s as the politician best equipped to pull together the disparate factions that made the Liberal governments of the era possible, Parry sees Lord John Russell as the dominant figure in the party from the 1840s until the 1860s. By contrast, his successor William Gladstone, the beloved "Grand Old Man" of the Liberal Party is portrayed as a destabilizing, almost megalomaniacal figure who ultimately splits the party over the issue of Irish Home Rule. Parry concludes his book by arguing that as a result of this split, the Conservatives inherited the winning approach and used it to dominate British politics in the century that followed.
Parry's book offers a thought-provoking analysis of British politics in the Victorian era. By reconsidering personalities and events from a different perspective, he provides a refreshing reexamination of a key period in British political history. Though some may question the conclusions he draws as a result, no student of the period can afford to ignore his work or the insights he provides in it.… (meer)