Carmen’s Reviews > The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire > Status Update

"Gambier was portrayed as a sixty-four-year fop and coxcomb who attempted to look and dress as if he were thirty. He was actually in his mid-fifties"
This is the author talking! Not a contemporary of Gambier! I'm not sure why the author decided to write that; "fop" and "coxcomb" are not words generally used. I would like more explanation of why the author chose those words. There is no citation to suggest otherwis