Product Description

The final volume in a three-part biography of British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger which follows PITT: THE YEARS OF ACCLAIM and PITT: THE RELUCTANT TRANSITION. Encompasses the years 1797 to 1806, and concludes with Pitt's death on January 23rd 1806.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1245513 in Books
• Published on: 1997-07-21
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 928 pages

Lord Blake, The Sunday Times
'This is one of the great political biographies of our time. It is a work of definitive and masterly scholarship.'

History Today
'(It)is much more than a biography: it is a monument to an entire tradition in British politics and historiography.'

Spectator
'Ehrman describes with a wealth of scholarship and learning unsurpassed by any historian of the period.'