{"product_id":"the-lost-imperialist-9781444792454","title":"The Lost Imperialist","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn eagerly anticipated biography of one of the greatest statesmen of the Victorian age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe cult of political biography is gently withering with the decline in the number of its adherents. How pleasing and unexpected, then, to read about Lord Dufferin, in \u003cb\u003ea scholarly, well-researched volume, elegantly written\u003c\/b\u003e and published by John Murray, which in its \u003ci\u003eancient régime\u003c\/i\u003e heyday issued many such tomes. \u003cb\u003eAndrew Gailey is a fine historian\u003c\/b\u003e * David Gilmour, Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eA scholarly book that will leave readers wiser about Victorian England as well as one of its most distinguished characters * Country Life *\u003cbr\u003eA story with a terrific denouement and unexpected psychological twists, \u003cb\u003eskilfully unravelled\u003c\/b\u003e by Gailey, whose research has been prodigious -- Piers Brendon * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eWell equipped to convey Dufferin's importance as an Ulster icon in the imperial age, [Andrew Gailey] also handles the \u003ci\u003ehaut ton\u003c\/i\u003e of late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain with aplomb. \u003cb\u003eHe writes engagingly\u003c\/b\u003e, a graceful turn of phrase leavened by the odd stiletto thrust, and he is an acute psychologist * Roy Foster, Carroll professor of Irish history at Hertford College, Oxford *\u003cbr\u003eBrilliantly places the glamorous but forgotten Irish proconsul Lord Dufferin in a world of contemporary myth-making and celebrity politics * Irish Times *","brand":"John Murray Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49083975500119,"sku":"9781444792454","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781444792454.jpg?v=1725550636","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-lost-imperialist-9781444792454","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}