Dimensions
165 x 242 x 50mm
Aristocratic, witty, eccentric, brilliant and ruthless, Robert Cecil, Third Marquess of Salisbury was three times Queen Victoria's Prime Minister and the genius behind her Empire.
It was Salisbury who masterminded the campaigns, ententes, treaties and pageantries which raised the British Empire to its zenith in terms of power and prestige at the end of the nineteenth century. It was Salisbury who, from his Jacobean palace at Hatfield, coordinated the policies which brought a quarter of the globe under British sway.
Writing with complete access to Salisbury's archive at Hatfield House, as well as using papers of more than 140 of Salisbury's contemporaries, Andrew Roberts explores every aspect of the man; his marriage for love, his caustic journalism, his distinctive political philosophy and his depression, humour and dazzling intellect.
This masterly biography is the first all-encompassing life of Salisbury for almost half a century, and the Marquess at last receives his due as a titan of late-Victorian politics.
