The Scapegoat - The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham

"Lord Buckingham rockets off the page of this gloriously epic, seductively detailed biography: a man of impossible contradictions, at once hubristic warmonger, tender lover and brilliant power-broker to two kings. Lucy Hughes-Hallett opens a spyhole into the dark, strange world of the Stuart kings, with its masques and superstitions, where a beautiful boy could rise to become the most powerful man in Britain." -- Olivia Laing, author of Everybody

Product details

• Authors: Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Lucy Hughes-Hallett
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.11.2024
• EAN: 9780062940131
• ISBN: 978-0-06-294013-1
• No. of pages: 688
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 49 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Royalty, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), Biography: royalty, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Political science and theory, Biography: historical, political and military, C 1600 To C 1700, Political leaders and leadership, 1660 to 1714 (Restoration and the Later Stuart period), 1603–1649 (Jacobean and Early Stuart period), BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Historical, COMPOSITION & WRITING: MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Royalty, LITERATURE: MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY, HISTORY: Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), Literature / Memoir & Biography, Composition & Writing / Memoir & Biography