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Little.Egret · 09-13-2017, 06:48 PM

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Rosebery: Statesman in Turmoil by Leo McKinstry

First published 2005 by John Murray

With a story full of colour, contradictions and controversy, the Fifth Earl of Rosebery is the ideal subject for a biography. Gifted with dazzling charisma, oratorical power, intellectual brilliance and fabulous wealth, he was the last Liberal peer to become Prime Minister, succeeding William Gladstone in 1895. But his career was undermined by his erratic character, which featured chronic self-doubts and bleak melancholia. Neither his celebrity nor his fortune brought him happiness. Thrust into the public realm by his aristocratic stature and vast popularity, he constantly yearned for solitude. His insecurities were made all the worse by dark whispers about his private life which reached their climax during the trials of Oscar Wilde at the very time of his Premiership.

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This is the guy who, at Eton, stated his ambitions were to become Prime Minister, marry an heiress and win the Derby.

3 out of 3.

The Mad Bad Line: The Family of Lord Alfred Douglas by Brian Roberts

Wilde’s tragic involvement with Lord Alfred Douglas’s family led him to believe anything he was told about the ‘mad, bad line.’ The truth was even stranger than he imagined.

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