Truffles for Potatoes
Ferdinand Mount: Little Rosebery, 22 September 2005
Rosebery: Statesman in Turmoil
by Leo McKinstry.
Murray, 626 pp., £25, May 2005,0 7195 5879 4 Show More
by Leo McKinstry.
Murray, 626 pp., £25, May 2005,
“... were made foreign secretary at the age of 38). Adoring crowds followed him throughout his career. Leo McKinstry in this excellent new biography makes a case for him being the first modern celebrity (but what about Nelson?). The music halls rang to the words: ‘Nearly everyone knows me, from Smith to Lord Rosebery,/I’m Burlington Bertie from ... ”