No British politician since then has exercised such supremacy for so long.
Yet he annihilated his opponents in the General Election the following year and dominated the governing of Britain for twenty-two years. The younger William Pitt - known as the 'schoolboy' - began his days as Prime Minister in 1783 deeply underestimated and completely beleaguered. A lively, authoritative biography of one of the towering figures in British history who became Prime Minister at the age of twenty-four, written by the youngest-ever leader of the Tory Party.
All pages are intact and the cover is intact.
The book has been read but remains in clean condition. William Hague's biography is comparable to Roy Jenkins's recent bestselling life of Churchill - an eminent politician writing an outstanding Prime Ministerial life - and announces the arrival of a brilliant new historical writer. He enjoyed huge success, yet died at the nadir of his fortunes, struggling to maintain a government beset by a thin majority at home and military disaster abroad he worked, worried and drank himself to death. Domestic crises included unrest in Ireland, deep division in the royal family and the madness of the King, and a full-scale naval mutiny. Pitt presided over dramatic changes in the country's finances and trade, brought about the union with Ireland, and directed the years of debilitating war with France.
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