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Wendy Hinde

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Description:When Castlereagh and Canning exchanged shots on Putney Heath in September 1809, no one knew that Britain stood to lose one or other of the greatest Foreign Secretaries in her history. Fortunately, though blood was drawn, the wound was not mortal. Even more extraordinary, their good fortune has now extended to having found in Wendy Hinde the same sympathetic and learned biographer.Of her GEORGE CANNING, published in 1973, Professor Norman Gash wrote . . . 'not only the best book on Canning that has yet appeared but one that will not easily be surpassed.' Roy Jenkins was equally decisive: 'a distinguished work of historical biography. Its scholarship seems to me faultless and its narrative power considerable.' It is difficult to believe that her CASTLEREAGH will learn less golden opinions.For Castlereagh unquestionably stood in greater need of a biographer than Canning. Both in his lifetime and afterwards his reputation has suffered disastrously from his ineptitude as a Parliamentary orator and from his contempt for the arts of public relations. In the Ireland he came from as in the Congress of Europe he helped form he has been the type-figure of the reactionary: cold, heartless, even brutal.The Castlereagh who now stands revealed to us from a thorough study of the original sources is a very different figure. Yet it is the measure of Wendy Hinde's skill as of her honesty and common sense that she makes the traditional image as the man himself. The gentleness and good humour that so endeared him to subordinates and colleagues were hidden behind an icy reserve. The integrity and firmness of purpose that raised him from a politician to a statesman were easily represented as ruthlessness and repression.Not the least interesting part of this fresh and lively biography is the first entitled 'The Irish Dimension'. Castlereagh entered politics as a member of the old Irish Parliament, and the part he played in securing its self-extinction made him one of the best-hated men in Irish history. For Pitt's last administration and the confused, uneasy years that followed Wendy Hinde has already shown her lucid and apparently effortless mastery of the issues and personalities in her life of Canning. Viewed from Castlereagh's angle their outline through different is no less sharp.Finally the account of the great diplomatic negotiations that have given Castlereagh a place in European and not merely British history make absorbing reading. The conditions under which he conducted his mission to Allied headquarters in the terrible winter of 1814 make his achievement the more astonishing. Both in narrative and in the portrayal of the principal characters such as Metternich and Tsar Alexander the author does full justice to her splendid material. Above all she never forgets that she is writing a biography. However great the scale of events the personality of the subject is never dwarfed or obscured.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Castlereagh. To get started finding Castlereagh, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 320

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Collins

Release: 1981

ISBN: 000216308X

Description: When Castlereagh and Canning exchanged shots on Putney Heath in September 1809, no one knew that Britain stood to lose one or other of the greatest Foreign Secretaries in her history. Fortunately, though blood was drawn, the wound was not mortal. Even more extraordinary, their good fortune has now extended to having found in Wendy Hinde the same sympathetic and learned biographer.Of her GEORGE CANNING, published in 1973, Professor Norman Gash wrote . . . 'not only the best book on Canning that has yet appeared but one that will not easily be surpassed.' Roy Jenkins was equally decisive: 'a distinguished work of historical biography. Its scholarship seems to me faultless and its narrative power considerable.' It is difficult to believe that her CASTLEREAGH will learn less golden opinions.For Castlereagh unquestionably stood in greater need of a biographer than Canning. Both in his lifetime and afterwards his reputation has suffered disastrously from his ineptitude as a Parliamentary orator and from his contempt for the arts of public relations. In the Ireland he came from as in the Congress of Europe he helped form he has been the type-figure of the reactionary: cold, heartless, even brutal.The Castlereagh who now stands revealed to us from a thorough study of the original sources is a very different figure. Yet it is the measure of Wendy Hinde's skill as of her honesty and common sense that she makes the traditional image as the man himself. The gentleness and good humour that so endeared him to subordinates and colleagues were hidden behind an icy reserve. The integrity and firmness of purpose that raised him from a politician to a statesman were easily represented as ruthlessness and repression.Not the least interesting part of this fresh and lively biography is the first entitled 'The Irish Dimension'. Castlereagh entered politics as a member of the old Irish Parliament, and the part he played in securing its self-extinction made him one of the best-hated men in Irish history. For Pitt's last administration and the confused, uneasy years that followed Wendy Hinde has already shown her lucid and apparently effortless mastery of the issues and personalities in her life of Canning. Viewed from Castlereagh's angle their outline through different is no less sharp.Finally the account of the great diplomatic negotiations that have given Castlereagh a place in European and not merely British history make absorbing reading. The conditions under which he conducted his mission to Allied headquarters in the terrible winter of 1814 make his achievement the more astonishing. Both in narrative and in the portrayal of the principal characters such as Metternich and Tsar Alexander the author does full justice to her splendid material. Above all she never forgets that she is writing a biography. However great the scale of events the personality of the subject is never dwarfed or obscured.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Castlereagh. To get started finding Castlereagh, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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