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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>

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|title=Eminent Elizabethans

I will admit that I didn't know what I was letting myself in for when I saw 'Nelson: A Dream of Glory' sitting on the Bookbag shelf, but I had just come back from Portsmouth and a wander around on the Victory, so it was a bit hard to resist.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845951913</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Kate Chisholm~~

~~|title=Wits and Wives: Dr Johnson in the Company of Women~~

~~|rating=5~~

~~|genre=Biography~~

|summary=What's your mental image of a Great Writer? Most people would probably say the same thing: someone sitting in splendid isolation, probably in a garret, writing Great Words and hating them. The idea of Great Writers having friends, or even a family, is a bizarre one. Partly this is because most Great Writers were incredibly weird people. But there's another issue at play. We're simply not used to imagining them in context, just one small part of a large and busy world. Our notion of biography is an incredibly fragmented one: despite the fact that one of the best indications of someone's character is how they interact with other human beings, we expect biographers to essentially confine themselves to the person and their literary output.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845951867</amazonuk>~~

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