The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
Adorable and frankly adoring ... Extremely well-researched and never balks from the many darker or seedier aspects of 17th-century life. But it’s persistently, almost weirdly a happy book. It’s the biography of a climber and a royal favorite, often a duplicitous and always a dangerous place for those daring enough to hold it. And yet, somehow, the book itself arrives accompanied by fiddles.
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Historians need anthropological as well as psychological skills, and these Hughes-Hallett possesses in abundance, along with an easy, wry wit.
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She brings an immense allusive range, from Hindu spiritualism to Shakespeare’s Ulysses, while often writing in short, pithy sentences. Similarly, the book contains 114 snack-sized chapters ... Precise.
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