Beschreibung:
This book offers an account of the life of one of the greatest statesmen of empire, William Pitt the Elder.
1. A political outsider and his world; 2. A very inflammatory politician: the rise to high office, 1735-1756; 3. War minister; 4. `Greatness going off? Pitt, 1761-1778; 5. Chatham as Hanoverian Patriot.