{"product_id":"macaulay-the-tragedy-of-power-9788125040439","title":"Macaulay: The Tragedy of Power","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robert E. Sullivan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Orient Blackswan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan\u003cbr\u003e • Subject: History\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the 150th anniversary of the death of the English historian and politician Thomas Babington \u003cstrong\u003eMacaulay,\u003c\/strong\u003e Robert Sullivan offers a portrait of a Victorian life that probes the cost of power, the practice of empire and the impact of ideas. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHis Macaulay is a Janus-faced master of the universe: a prominent spokesman for abolishing slavery in the British Empire who cared little for the cause, a forceful advocate for reforming Whig politics but a Machiavellian realist, a soaring parliamentary orator who avoided debate, a self-declared Christian, yet a skeptic and a secularizer of English history and culture, and a stern public moralist who was in love with his two youngest sisters. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePerhaps best known in India for the insolent tone of the Minute of 1835 and the drafting of the Criminal Procedure Code, Macaulay’s \u003cem\u003eHistory of England\u003c\/em\u003e is a celebrated western classic. His father ensured that ancient Greek and Latin literature shaped Macaulay’s mind, but he crippled his heir emotionally. Self-defense taught Macaulay that power, calculation, and duplicity rule politics and human relations. In Macaulay’s writings, Sullivan unearths a sinister vision of progress that prophesied twentieth-century genocide. That the reverent portrait fashioned by Macaulay’s distinguished extended family eclipsed his insistent rhetoric about race, subjugation, and civilizing slaughter testifies to the grip of moral obliviousness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDevoting his huge talents to gaining power—above all for England and its empire—made Macaulay’s life a tragedy. Sullivan offers an unsurpassed study of an afflicted genius and a thoughtful meditation on the modern ethics of power.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45616498180247,"sku":"9788125040439","price":1674.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9788125040439.webp?v=1769294952","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/macaulay-the-tragedy-of-power-9788125040439","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}