Letters of Lord Acton to Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone

Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton

1834–1902

Best known for the warning that “power tends to corrupt,” this 19th-century historian and public thinker spent his life wrestling with liberty, conscience, and the moral dangers of authority. His work still appeals to listeners interested in ideas, politics, and the long struggle between freedom and power.