Rose opens with England exhausted at the close of the American war, then follows the younger Pitt from boyhood and Cambridge to Westminster, his struggle with Fox and the Coalition, and his first ministry’s work of retrenchment, financial and commercial reform, and European diplomacy up to the eve of conflict with revolutionary France.
The first half of a two-part life, complete in itself, whose sequel is William Pitt and the Great War. Download the free EPUB.