The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Paperback)

Book I. 1809?1831: Introductory; 1. Childhood; 2. Eton; 3. Oxford; Book II. 1832?1846: 1. Enters Parliament; 2. The new conservatism and office; 3. Progress in public life; 4. The church; 5. His first book; 6. Characteristics; 7. Close of apprenticeship; 8. Peel's government; 9. Maynooth; 10. Triumph of policy and fall of the minister; 11. The Tractarian catastrophe; Book III. 1847?1852: 1. Member for Oxford; 2. The Hawarden estate; 3. Party evolution - new colonial policy; 4. Death of Sir Robert Peel; 5. Gorham case - secession of friends; 6. Naples; 7. Religious tornado - peelite difficulties; 8. End of protection; Book IV. 1853?1859: 1. The coalition; 2. The triumph of 1853; 3. The Crimean war; 4. Oxford reform - the open Civil Service; 5. War finance - tax or loan; 6. Crisis of 1855 and break-up of the Peelites; 7. Political isolation; 8. General election - new marriage law; 9. The second Derby government; 10. The Ionian islands; 11. Junction with the Liberals; Appendix; Chronology.