{"product_id":"2940013653085","title":"THE MIRRORS OF DOWNING STREET","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER                            PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePUBLISHER'S NOTE                      v\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION                        vii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI.--MR. LLOYD GEORGE                  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII.--LORD CARNOCK                    19\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII.--LORD FISHER                    29\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIV.--MR. ASQUITH                     39\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eV.--LORD NORTHCLIFFE                 49\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVI.--MR. ARTHUR BALFOUR              59\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVII.--LORD KITCHENER                 71\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVIII.--LORD ROBERT CECIL             85\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIX.--MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL           97\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eX.--LORD HALDANE                    109\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXI.--LORD RHONDDA                   123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXII.--LORD INVERFORTH               135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXIII.--LORD LEVERHULME              151\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXIV.--CONCLUSION                    163\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMR. LLOYD GEORGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     _\"And wars, like mists that rise against the sun,\u003cbr\u003e     Made him but greater seem, not greater grow.\"_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     DRYDEN.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you think about it, no one since Napoleon has appeared on the earth\u003cbr\u003ewho attracts so universal an interest as Mr. Lloyd George. This is a\u003cbr\u003erather startling thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is significant, I think, how completely a politician should\u003cbr\u003eovershadow all the great soldiers and sailors charged with their\u003cbr\u003enation's very life in the severest and infinitely the most critical\u003cbr\u003emilitary struggle of man's history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA democratic age, lacking in colour, and antipathetic to romance,\u003cbr\u003esomewhat obscures for us the pictorial achievement of this remarkable\u003cbr\u003efigure. He lacks only a crown, a robe, and a gilded chair easily to\u003cbr\u003eoutshine in visible picturesqueness the great Emperor. His achievement,\u003cbr\u003ewhen we consider what hung upon it, is greater than Napoleon's, the\u003cbr\u003enarrative of his origin more romantic, his character more complex. And\u003cbr\u003eyet who does not feel the greatness of Napoleon?--and who does not\u003cbr\u003esuspect the shallowness of Mr. Lloyd George?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHistory, it is certain, will unmask his pretensions to grandeur with a\u003cbr\u003erough, perhaps with an angry hand; but all the more because of this\u003cbr\u003eunmasking posterity will continue to crowd about the exposed hero\u003cbr\u003easking, and perhaps for centuries continuing to ask, questions\u003cbr\u003econcerning his place in the history of the world. \"How came it, man of\u003cbr\u003estraw, that in Armageddon there was none greater than you?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe coldest-blooded amongst us, Mr. Massingham of _The Nation_ for\u003cbr\u003eexample, must confess that it was a moment rich in the emotion which\u003cbr\u003ebestows immortality on incident when this son of a village schoolmaster,\u003cbr\u003ewho grew up in a shoemaker's shop, and whose boyish games were played in\u003cbr\u003ethe street of a Welsh hamlet remote from all the refinements of\u003cbr\u003ecivilization and all the clangours of industrialism, announced to a\u003cbr\u003ebreathless Europe without any pomposity of phrase and with but a brief\u003cbr\u003eand contemptuous gesture of dismissal the passing away from the world's\u003cbr\u003estage of the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns--those ancient, long glorious,\u003cbr\u003eand most puissant houses whose history for an æon was the history of\u003cbr\u003eEurope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuch topsy-turvydom, such historical anarchy, tilts the figure of Mr.\u003cbr\u003eLloyd George into a salience so conspicuous that for a moment one is\u003cbr\u003etempted to confuse prominence with eminence, and to mistake the slagheap\u003cbr\u003eof upheaval for the peaks of Olympus.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152649830640,"sku":"2940013653085","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013653085_p0.jpg?v=1763583903","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013653085","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}