G. K. Chesterton’s brother, dedicating his book to the novelist Edgar Jepson, argues that Edwardian Liberalism is haunted by the ghosts of Gladstone’s age. He takes on free trade as a fetish, Nonconformist education politics, anti-militarism, drift toward anarchism and Liberal sympathy for every nation but their own.
Pugnacious, quotable political criticism from the eve of the 1906 Liberal landslide. Download the free EPUB.