Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Rogue by David McKie

Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Rogue

David McKie

284 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced

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Jabez Spencer Balfour was a businessman, philanthropist, politician, temperance campaigner and charmer. He was also an astonishing scoundrel - a liar, adulterer and cheat - who perpetrated the most destructive fraud of the 19th century.

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