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Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne
bookshelves: spring-2013, tudor, nonfiction, history, published-2000, biography, politics
Read from March 02 to 05, 2013
David Starkey is a crassly stupid man in reality, an arrogant water-muddier who relishes poking sticks into hornets' nests:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/201...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug...
However, he really can put together a good book; it's about loving the art whilst circumnavigating the artist. This is a fabulous biography of the early life of Elizabeth, and I have read many.
I see that the Chatto and Windus edition took no notice of the content of this book, where it is stressed that this is about the young woman in the square-necked dress being so different from the lead-whitened face of Gloriana in her later years:
#64 TBR Busting 2013
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