LEADER 03480nam 22004935 450 001 9910148693503321 005 20201003043532.0 010 $a1-4426-5465-1 010 $a1-4426-5274-8 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442652743 035 $a(CKB)3710000000922504 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4730251 035 $a(DE-B1597)479314 035 $a(OCoLC)992507728 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442652743 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000922504 100 $a20170630d2017 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aChief Whip /$fChilston, Eric Alexander Akers-Douglas 210 1$aToronto : $cUniversity of Toronto Press, $d[2017] 210 4$dİ1961 215 $a1 online resource (397 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates) $cillustrations, photographs 225 0 $aHeritage 311 $a1-4426-3911-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tEditor's Note -- $tContents -- $tPlates -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction -- $tI. The Spell of Disraeli -- $tII. Lord Randolph Ramps: Akers-Douglas Arrives -- $tIII. 'Politics Are Ireland' -- $tIV. The Unionist Alliance -- $tV. The Climax of Churchill -- $tVI. Reconstruction and Attack -- $tVII. Critics and Malcontents -- $tVIII. Churchill's Final Flings -- $tIX. Tory Attitudes to Reform -- $tX. The Stricken Leader -- $tXI. Close of a Chapter -- $tXII. A Dying Parliament -- $tXIII. In Opposition -- $tXIV. The Alliance in the Balance -- $tXV. 'Eminence Grise' -- $tXVI. Army Education and Home Office -- $tXVII. The Cabinet Crisis of 1903 -- $tXVIII. The Tariff Reform Imbroglio -- $tXIX. Last Battles -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThe author's grandfather, Aretas Akers-Douglas (1857-1926) was in his day called ";The Prince of Whips";. Starting in 1880 as a confederate of the brilliant but unorthodox Lord Randolph Churchill, he graduated in record time to the position of chief dispenser of the official Conservative party line and held it for ten exceptionally arduous years at the height of the Home Rule controversy with its complications, Liberal unionism, parliamentary sabotage and obstruction.This position was rendered all the more responsible through the distaste felt by the two great leaders whom he served-Lord Salisbury and A.J. Balfour-for the details of party management; and even after he had been moved to another office his advice continued to be sought on all questions relating to the party's domestic affairs.Out of the intimate and informal correspondence received in these capacities Lord Chilston has made an entertaining political biography, unravelling a most complex period of parliamentary history and revealing much about Lord Salisbury, Lord Randolph Churchill, Joseph Chamberlain, A.J. Balfour and lesser figures, like the loyal and endearing W.H. Smith, Walter Long and Richard Middleton. 606 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political$2bisacsh 607 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1837-1901 607 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1901-1910 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political. 676 $a320.942081 700 $aAkers-Douglas$b Chilston, Eric Alexander$0995557 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910148693503321 996 $aChief Whip$92281098 997 $aUNINA