{"product_id":"lion-the-unicorn-1","title":"Lion \u0026 The Unicorn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Engaging and highly entertaining’ \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The dramatic confrontation between the two ''mighty opposites'' of the Victorian age, brilliantly recreated by a talented young historian.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Gladstone and Disraeli were the fiercest political rivals of the modern age. Their intense hatred was ideological and deeply personal. Victorian Britain ruled the oceans and vast territories ''on which the sun never set''. The vitriolic duel between Gladstone and Disraeli was nothing less than a battle to lead the richest and most powerful nation on earth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To Disraeli, his antagonist was an ''unprincipled maniac'' characterised by an ''extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition''. For Gladstone, his rival was ''The Grand Corrupter'' whose destruction he plotted ''day and night, week by week, month by month''. Victorians were electrified by the confrontation. No wonder that when Lewis Carroll''s \u003ci\u003eThrough the Looking-Glass \u003c\/i\u003eappeared in 1871, so many readers recognised the great adversaries as the warring lion and unicorn ''fighting for the crown''.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Richard Aldous gives us the first modern telling of this dramatic story of an intense and momentous rivalry. His vivid narrative style - at turns powerful, witty, stirring and theatrical - breathes new life into a familiar, half-remembered tale that is pivotal in Britain''s island history. \u003ci\u003eThe Lion and the Unicorn\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant rethinking of the Gladstone and Disraeli story for a new generation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Aldous confirms a perennial truth: in politics, everything is personal.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57317158125950,"sku":"NW9781844133123","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781844133123.jpg?v=1778636992","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/lion-the-unicorn-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}