If you want to read one book about inequality and its ramifications for all societies, now and in the past, let it be this. By a former Pulitzer winner.
AdeC is a superb social historian and here she has found a subject supremely worthy of her skill. Her cast here comprises Wyndham Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Tristan Tzara, Ezra Pound, Louis Arago... read more
Grandson of an attainted Jacobite, the last Earl of Seaforth climbed volcanoes with William Hamilton and entertained young Mozart in Naples while on the Grand Tour. His marriage to a fashion... read more
The cover of this book shows the gorgeous Zoffany portrait of these talented and influential siblings, who were born in a Northumberland rectory and became involved in such a wide range of C... read more
A panoramic account by the distinguished Harvard historian of five generations of a French provincial family originally from Angouleme, crammed with stories and archival research. ER has a d... read more