A Man of Contradictions: A Life of A.L. Rowse

Richard Lawrence Ollard

ISBN 10: 0713993537 / ISBN 13: 9780713993530

Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London, 1999

Beschreibung

As historian and polemicist, Rowse was deeply involved in many of the key debates of the mid-century. He combined Marxist historiography and keen English patriotism, support for modernism with deep attachment to the traditions of the college he loved, All Souls. Above all, he was both an industrious and influential academic historian and an energetic participant in political, cultural and literary life. This engagement reached its zenith in Rowse's principled and vindicated opposition to appeasement. This authorized biography draws a full picture of one of the dominant figures of Oxford, Cornwall and England. In doing so, Richard ollard illuminates many of the bewildering changes of the 20th century. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers GOR003691179

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A Man of Contradictions: A Life of A.L. Rowse

Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1999

Einband: Paperback

Zustand: Good

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Inhaltsangabe:

As historian and polemicist, Rowse was deeply involved in many of the key debates of the mid-century. He combined Marxist historiography and keen English patriotism, support for modernism with deep attachment to the traditions of the college he loved, All Souls. Above all, he was both an industrious and influential academic historian and an energetic participant in political, cultural and literary life. This engagement reached its zenith in Rowse's principled and triumphantly vindicated opposition to appeasement. This, the first and only authorised biography draws the fullest picture we will ever have of one of the dominant figures of Oxford, Cornwall and England. Doing so, he illuminates many of the bewildering changes of our century.

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Richard Ollard is the prize-winning biographer of Pepys and Clarendon, the author of The Escape of Charles II, This War Without an Enemy, Fisher and Cunningham and many other books. In 1997 he was joint winner (with Norman Lewis) of the Heywood HillPrize for a lifetime's contribution to the pleasure of reading.