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Title: Queen of Scots : The True Life of Mary Stuart by John Guy ISBN: 0-618-25411-0 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 07 April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Huge and hugely satisfying
Comment: This is a big book in more ways than one. Even though it's a tome I read it very quickly and with great satisfaction. The religiosity of Elizabethan politics were clearly as cynical as the politics of our own time, but in those days you could have your head removed for it. That thought never left my mind as I plowed through this great read. This is a serious book, but it reads like a novel.
Elizabeth is always held up as a master politician, and although Mary may or may not have been her equal politically she was her superior in charm by a long shot. You cannot help sympathizing with her, admiring her courage, even if she might have been complicitous in her own victimization. She was a very complex character, and this book does an excellent job of teasing out the various strands of her personality.
There is a lot of new information here as well. If you have read the other books on the subject, especially Antonia Fraser's, or are looking for a good place to begin, this is the book for you.
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Title: Elizabeth and Mary : Cousins, Rivals, Queens by JANE DUNN ISBN: 0375408983 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ISBN: 1594200092 Publisher: The Penguin Press Pub. Date: 26 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Island at the Center of the World : The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan, the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America by RUSSELL SHORTO ISBN: 0385503490 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 16 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Sir Walter Raleigh by Raleigh Trevelyan ISBN: 080507502X Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 03 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) by David Hackett Fischer ISBN: 0195170342 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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