The Mind of Gladstone: Religion, Homer, and Politics

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DAVID W. BEBBINGTON. The Mind of Gladstone: Religion, Homer, and Politics. New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. x + 314, introduction, bibliography, index. $125.00.

With The Mind of Gladstone: Religion, Homer and Politics, David Bebbington (University of Stirling, United Kingdom) has rendered many previous studies of William Gladstone obsolete. Making excellent use of Gladstone's diaries, letters, notes, and other primary materials located at St. Deiniol's Library, Hawarden-Gladstone's home which now serves as a library and a refuge for scholars-and elsewhere, Bebbington has produced a remarkable study on the manifold aspects of Gladstone's thinking and …