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More of an exhaustive history than an interpretive biography, it is nonetheless worth the effort. I picked it up to prepare for an upcoming weekend in Hyde Park, and the length - 900 pages in paperback! - means that I'll still be reading when I returMore of an exhaustive history than an interpretive biography, it is nonetheless worth the effort. I picked it up to prepare for an upcoming weekend in Hyde Park, and the length - 900 pages in paperback! - means that I'll still be reading when I return. There's so much fascinating detail here about two figures so towering that it pulls you through the mechanical pace and academic tone. Still, I feel the same way I did when I somehow managed to outlast Robert Caro in the Power Broker: it's a pity that the author didn't work with an editor disciplined enough to hone the book to something more merciful to the reader....more
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