Product Description: A sharp and witty analysis of four characters who have illuminated the age of Elizabeth II: Rupert Murdoch, Prince Charles, Margaret Thatcher, and Mick Jagger Modeled on Lytton Strachey's classic portrayal of eminent Victorians, Piers Brendon's cameo biographies shed dazzling new light on the age of Queen Elizabeth II...read more

Product Description:  • Rupert Murdoch, outrageous media baron whose empire, built in an 'ethical void', controls contemporary channels of knowledge;  • Prince Charles, quack dilettante whose messy private life shook the throne;  • Margaret Thatcher, the daughter of a grocer whose authoritarian regime undid much of Britain's post-war legacy; and  • Mick Jagger, the big-lipped egotist whose excesses epitomized the swinging sixties...read more

Product Description: Astute, witty, and mercifully brief, Eminent Edwardians is a portrait of an age. Piers Brendon reveals the essence of the Edwardian era in biographical sketches of four of its most famous figures: Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister and inspirer of the Balfour Declaration on Palestine; Emmeline Pankhurst, dare-devil Suffragette and “castrating threat to the lords of humankind”; Robert Baden-Powell, war idol and “eternal Boy Scout”; and grandiose newspaper baron Lord Alfred Northcliffe, who unleashed on an unsuspecting world a mass popular press...read more

A panoramic study of a pivotal decade in twentieth-century history explores a time dominated by the Great Depression, political unrest, social upheaval, repression, and the coming of World War II; profiles the key figures of the era--Hitler, Roosevelt, Mao, Stalin, and Franco, among others--and the events, movements, and attitudes that shaped the world. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: First published in 1992, a collection of four biographical essays on eminent Victorians, focusing on Prime Minister Balfour, suffragette Mrs. Pankhurst, Baden-Powell, and Lord Northcliffe. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Traces the history of the House of Windsor from 1917 to the present, and looks at the Queen's relationships with Britain's government

Examines the contradictory interpretations of Dwight David Eisenhower's effectiveness as a leader and analyzes his paradoxical personality--one possessed of strong passions but a weak character, noble instincts but irresolute will, and generous impluses but selfish motives

Creates a portrait, highlighted by details and anecdotes, that captures the brilliance, egotism, and heroism of this twentieth-century giant