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

by Piers Brendon

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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.

Brendon’s cast list is as follows:

·Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire media mogul whose empire, built on an ethical void,...

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  • ISBN10 0224087517
  • ISBN13 9780224087513
  • Publish Date 13 September 2012
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 23 November 2013
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Vintage Publishing
  • Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 320
  • Language English