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|author=Barbara A Perry
|title=Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch
|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=It's about fifty years since the assassination of President John F Kennedy and it was he (and particularly his death) who brought the Kennedy family to the attention of a new generation. An earlier generation had been split about the virtues (or otherwise) of his father, Joe Kennedy, multi millionaire and United States Ambassador to Great Britain. But behind both of these men was mother and wife, Rose Kennedy and Barbara A Perry has produced a superb biography using letters, diaries and other archived material recently made available.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393068951</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|summary=''Eminent Elizabethans'' is in effect a descendant of the author’s ''Eminent Edwardians''. The latter, a volume of short biographies of four British iconic figures of the early twentieth century, was in turn inspired by Lytton Strachey’s barbed 'Eminent Victorians', published in 1918, a debunking of four Victorian heroes whom the iconoclast Strachey wished to demonstrate had feet of clay.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532638</amazonuk>
}}
