Balfour The Last Grandee eBook R J Q Adams
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Arthur James Balfour was born to wealth and position, with intellect and charm to match. His succession of his uncle, Lord Salisbury, as premier in 1902 appeared to be simply another element of his inheritance.
Balfour was a Conservative but never a true-blue Tory like the powerful squirearchy who viewed him with awe but often found him difficult to understand. And no wonder he was a Scottish laird and an English sophisticate; a ferocious partisan and a celebrated intellectual; a sincere Christianity yet a defender of spiritualism; an Imperialist and a Zionist.
His short-lived premiership was destroyed by party strife, yet in a renewed career he crafted the 1917 Balfour Declaration as well as the 1926 Balfour Definition of the Commonwealth, and at age 73 he dominated the pivotal 1921–2 Washington Naval Conference.
Balfour’s public and private lives were simply remarkable–unimaginable today no matter one’s talents or wealth.
‘Adams is one of those disconcerting Americans who know as much about British history as any Briton. He writes with grace, intelligence and concision.’ - Philip Ziegler, THE SPECTATOR
‘Adams is an American historian with a remarkable knowledge and understanding of Victorian and Edwardian politics. As in his previous work, a biography of Andrew Bonar Law, Balfour’s lugubrious successor as Tory leader, he skilfully interweaves his subject’s life with the politics of his age to produce a stylish and readable book.’ - David Gilmour, THE TIMES
‘Professor Adams does a grand job of bringing to life the man he calls “the last grandee”, one of the more original Scots who've made Number 10 Downing Street their temporary digs.’ - George Rosie, THE HERALD
Balfour The Last Grandee eBook R J Q Adams
R.J.Q. Adams' BALFOUR: The Last Grandee is a fine book. However, I strongly recommend reading Kenneth Young's 1963 biography before pursuing Adam's work. Young does a superb job of analyzing Balfour's philosophical volumes; as well, Young takes the reader back to the era in which Balfour lived and practiced philosophy, politics and the art of life. There is something rather too modern and easy-going about Adams' style of writing which does not suit the subject matter. Taken together, both books provide the reader and the serious historian with a broad and yet detailed sensibility of Arthur James Balfour.Product details
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Balfour The Last Grandee eBook R J Q Adams Reviews
I suppose it's good that someone is still writing this kind of political biography/history, though there's nothing very insightful or innovative here in its methodology or its judgments. Don't expect any social historiography let alone "postmodernist" perspectives. And why an American historian from rural Indiana uses the affected initials "R. J. Q" is anyone's guess. Perhaps this affectation sheds some light on why Adams has happily been at Texas A&M his whole career and even on the nature of his ideology and self regard. Does his own "grandeeism" lead him to genuflect on the steps of the Bush Library whenever he's on campus there? A useful book for those indentured to outdated "great man" history and passionately interested in the personal details and decisions of a British pol from a century ago.
R.J.Q. Adams' BALFOUR The Last Grandee is a fine book. However, I strongly recommend reading Kenneth Young's 1963 biography before pursuing Adam's work. Young does a superb job of analyzing Balfour's philosophical volumes; as well, Young takes the reader back to the era in which Balfour lived and practiced philosophy, politics and the art of life. There is something rather too modern and easy-going about Adams' style of writing which does not suit the subject matter. Taken together, both books provide the reader and the serious historian with a broad and yet detailed sensibility of Arthur James Balfour.
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