Rosebery - Couverture souple

Judicious, well-researched and engrossing (Sunday Times)

McKinstry's study has illuminated Rosebery's career (History Today)

His strange journey is well described in this impressive book (BBC History)

Stunning ... As well as being meticulously researched, it is beautifully written and has tremendous pace (Literary Review)

Absorbing ... McKinstry has here proved himself to be a first-class historical biographer (Mail on Sunday)

McKinstry...has produced a first-class biography, scholarly, analytical, judicious and always interesting. (Herald)

This is an authoritative and original biography which is also a riveting read. (Spectator)

With masterly skill and sympathy, Leo McKinstry resurrects him as the Hamlet of late Victorian England (Daily Mail)

An authoritative and original biography which is also a riveting read' (Spectator)

(A) fascinating account of one of Britain's most perplexing leaders. (Belfast Telegraph)

The Fifth Earl of Rosebery was the most glamorous Liberal politician of the late Victorian age. Charismatic, enlightened, wealthy and intellectually brilliant, he once said that he had three ambitions: to marry an heiress, win the Derby and become Prime Minister. By his mid-forties, he had achieved all three.

But his political career was clouded by his mercurial character. Self-centred, impulsive and neurotic, he shrouded himself in mystery and was caught up in many of the greatest scandals of his era. Now, using a wealth of archival material, award-winning author Leo McKinstry reveals the dramatic, compelling story behind this paradoxical figure.