Finally his story is told with the drama, wit and authority it deserves. He enjoyed huge success, yet died at the nadir of his fortunes, struggling to maintain a government beset by a thin majority at home and military disaster abroad he worked, worried and drank himself to death. Domestic crises included unrest in Ireland, deep division in the royal family, the madness of the King and a full-scale naval mutiny.

In this lively and authoritative study, William Hague. William Pitt the Younger was one of the most extraordinary figures in British history. William Pitt the Younger is an illuminating biography of one of the great iconic figures in British history: the man who in 1784 at the age of twenty-four became (and so remains) the youngest Prime Minister in the history of England. Lord Hague has written two very successful and critically acclaimed political biographies: of William Pitt the Younger, which won the History Book of the. The movie, which is described as a film about a racer putting their retirement plans on pause for a younger driver, will have Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer at the helm. Pitt presided over dramatic changes in the country’s finances and trade, brought about the union with Ireland, but was ultimately consumed by the years of debilitating war with France. The award-winning biography of William Pitt the Younger by William Hague, the youngest leader of the Tory Party since Pitt himself. Brad Pitt is set to hop in the driver’s seat as he gears up for an upcoming Formula One film. No British politician since then has exercised such supremacy for so long. Yet he annihilated his opponents in the General Election the following year and dominated the governing of Britain for twenty-two years, nearly nineteen of them as Prime Minister. The younger William Pitt – known as the ‘schoolboy’ – began his days as Prime Minister in 1783 deeply underestimated and completely beleaguered. The Sunday Times bestselling biography of one of the towering figures in British history who became Prime Minister at the age of twenty-four, written by the youngest-ever leader of the Tory Party.

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