The Great Man
Title | The Great Man PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Pearce |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 506 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN | 1844134059 |
"The year 1721 has many splendors, but there are also 13 public hanging days a year, drunkenness is endemic, and organized crime rampages through the streets. Only a generation earlier James II, suspected of conspiring to enforce Roman Catholicism and subordinate England to France, was driven out by the Whigs. In 1715 his son, the Pretender, failed to take the Crown by armed force. The new King, George I, an intelligent, moderate man, is cursed everywhere as a damned foreigner. James's followers, the Jacobites, conspire and are persecuted. In 1720, the South Sea Bubble, an attempt to finance state debt by runaway speculation, collapses. Ruined people mass in Westminster. The South Sea directors, says an MP, should be thrown into the sea. The Pretender could take over any day. Robert Walpole, once imprisoned for financial chicanery, assumes political control. When the rage subsides he becomes chief minister--or, a new title, "Prime Minister." He personally detects a Jacobite plot. Digging in, he buys parliamentary seats wholesale with secret service money. In a runaway theatrical success, "The Beggar's Opera", Walpole is compared with the criminal mastermind Jonathan Wild. But he will dominate King, Parliament, and Government until 1742. Dismissed in 1727 on the death of George I, he recruits the new King's clever wife, Caroline, and bounces cheerfully back. Coarse, corrupt, and cynical, Walpole sits on the Treasury Bench munching little Norfolk apples sent from the estate he is enlarging with political profit. This is Mr. Worldlywiseman, keeping England out of war for 20 years and setting up a stable and growing economy. All politics of a kind we can recognize begin with Robert Walpole. And here, in Edward Pearce's elegant book, he is brought vividly back to life."--Publisher description.
Sir Robert Walpole
Title | Sir Robert Walpole PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Charles Ewald |
Publisher | |
Pages | 486 |
Release | 1878 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
A Short History of that Parliament which Committed Sir Robert Walpole to the Tower, Expelled Him [from] the House of Commons, and Approved of the Infamous Peace of Utrecht
Title | A Short History of that Parliament which Committed Sir Robert Walpole to the Tower, Expelled Him [from] the House of Commons, and Approved of the Infamous Peace of Utrecht PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Walpole (Earl of Orford) |
Publisher | London : Printed for J. Almon and J. Williams |
Pages | 66 |
Release | 1763 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
A Letter to the Right Honourable Robert Walpole, Esq
Title | A Letter to the Right Honourable Robert Walpole, Esq PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Defoe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 1716 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
An Epistle to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole..
Title | An Epistle to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole.. PDF eBook |
Author | George Bubb Dodington (Baron of Melcombe Regis) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 1726 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND ADMINISTRATION OF SIR ROBERT WALPOLE
Title | MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND ADMINISTRATION OF SIR ROBERT WALPOLE PDF eBook |
Author | William Coxe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 744 |
Release | 1798 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
Sir Robert Walpole's Poets
Title | Sir Robert Walpole's Poets PDF eBook |
Author | Tone Sundt Urstad |
Publisher | University of Delaware Press |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780874136906 |
"During Sir Robert Walpole's term as "Prime Minister" exorbitant amounts of money were spent on propaganda in support of his administration. Since nearly all the major writers of the period adopted an anti-government stance, however, historians have shown far more interest in the organization and contents of opposition propaganda than in its pro-government counterpart. This book is the first comprehensive study of the literature published in support of Walpole's administration, and explores important pro-government themes, and also explains how the propaganda network was organized and what precisely the Old Corps Whig leadership hoped to achieve."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved