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An sympathetic study of a neglected political giant
By David Lowther
The sheer size of Andrew Roberts' weighty tome might suggest that it consists of a considerable amount of useless information leavened with the occassional anecdote, written in a dry and academic style. Not so. Roberts presents the facts in a clear, entertaining manner which leaves the reader thankful that Salisbury has fianlly got the biographer he deserves. Salisbury's life and achievements are dealt with in exhaustive detail, and Roberts' character sketches of the other major players of the period - Bismarck, Disraeli, Gladstone et al - are hugely informative and entertaining.It is clear that years of scholarship have gone into this biography. Contemporary sources and letters litter each chapter, allowing an insight into Salisbury's character and views on policy, as well as giving the reader the benefit of the phlegmatic politician's witty and concise style of writing. These sources come in particularly handy in the chapters dealing with Salisbury's foreign policy and his attitude to foreign powers, particularly Bismarckian Germany.It is interesting to wonder what the most accomplished foreign minister in British history would think were he able to analyse Britain's current situation in the world. On finishing this book it is sobering to reflect on the past acheivements of an age now long in the past, and it might just be possible that some of Salisbury's methods might still be relevent in the 21st century.

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Important and Pedestrian!
By Samuel Romilly
This is an undoubtedly an important book as it provides virtually only biography of an important but largely forgotten politician and prime minister. The research has been prodigious, and the sources are mined to effect. It is a titan of a book whether or not the subject was a titan also.And yet, and yet. There is a major problem with it. It lacks interest. I struggled with it. I also struggle with why I struggled. What is its defect? It was not just the length, nor the compass. I was reading in tandem Norman Gash's magisterial biography of that largely forgotten and even more important titan, Robert Peel. Gash's two volumes are even longer that Roberts's one, but they never flag. Maybe Peel is intrinsically more interesting as a man and as a politician, but it is more than that. Gash has sparkle as well as scholarship. Roberts has only the latter. The style is competent but without verve. I do not like saying it, but it is pedestrian. He plods through Salisbury's worthy life. Perhaps less detail, perhaps a shorter book, perhaps a sketch would have been more effective. I know! It reminds me of those titanic Victorian bibliographies that lie heavy on library shelves gathering dust, worthy like their subjects, but dull ( a little like The Guardian - although that is not a comparison of which Roberts would approve)I have laid this book aside at page 233 and am unlikely ever to read the remaining 619 pages (not including the almost hundred pages of notes and bibliography and index). The only book that has had a similar dulling effect on me was many years ago when I failed to finish the massive tomb of another Victorian Titan, Karl Marx. I am afraid to compare anything with Das Kapital is damming with feint praise.

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