Eminent Elizabethans: Rupert Murdoch, Prince Charles, Margaret Thatcher & Mick Jagger

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Modelled on Lytton Strachey’s classic portrayal of eminent Victorians, Piers Brendon’s cameo biographies shed dazzling new light on the age of Queen Elizabeth II.

All four of his characters have loomed large in the annals of their time. All have aroused controversy in the uttermost corners of the earth, stirring passions as much by personality as by performance. And all have been ambivalent towards the great contemporary process of change, promoting revolt yet championing continuity, flirting with radicalism yet embracing conservatism.

A sequel to Brendon’s best-selling Eminent Edwardians, which has been in print ever since it was published nearly thirty years ago, Eminent Elizabethans is written in the same witty, ironic and irreverent style. Like its predecessor, it sets its quartet in context, revealing how each one played out a major theme in the new Elizabethan medley.

But the dramatis personae are not just treated as symptoms of their history, but rather as creatures of flesh and blood. They are vividly and vitally depicted through pungent anecdote, piquant quotation and mordant commentary.

In short, these brilliant miniatures are as entertaining as they are illuminating.