Volume 26, Number 15 · October 11, 1979
Upward to Defeat
By Neal Ascherson
Gladstone: A Progress in Politics
by Peter Stansky
Little, Brown, 201 pp., $9.95
'As I have done with that most offensive part of my task, the imposition of taxation, I feel as it is said men are wont to feel—and as some of us have felt—when they have ended their long upward journey and reached at length the summit of the Alps. Now I have the downward road before me and the plains of Italy are in my view. I come, then, Sir, to consider the more agreeable subject of the remission of taxation.'
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