Castlereagh by John Bew

Castlereagh

John Bew

752 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction biography history politics informative slow-paced
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Damned in coruscating verse by Shelley and Byron, his coffin hissed at during his funeral, Lord Castlereagh has one of the blackest reputations in British history. But as John Bew shows, this is but a half-drawn portrait. His gripping biography re...

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