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Eminent Edwardians: Four Figures who Defined their Age: Northcliffe, Balfour, Pankhurst, Baden-Powell
Eminent Edwardians Four Figures who Defined their Age Northcliffe Balfour Pankhurst Baden-Powell Author:Piers Brendon 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... more » 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.« less
Karen L. (levyk27) reviewed Eminent Edwardians: Four Figures who Defined their Age: Northcliffe, Balfour, Pankhurst, Baden-Powell on + 2 more book reviews
I'm interested in this period, but the author's constant efforts to phrase everything in a "clever" way are very distracting. After a chapter or two, I got tired of trying to sift through the wit for actual content.