The Dukes by Brian Masters
The origins of the non-royal dukes in the British peerage divide nicely into Tudor looters, Royal bastards, opportunist generals, territorial, metropolitan or Scottish magnates.
Excellent mightily researched and readableAbsorbing through so many pages * Scotsman *
Splendidly painstaking and enormously readable -- Arthur Marshall * New Statesman *
With a keen sense of precedence and an admirable grasp of the British peerage system, he darts from duke to duke... racing up and down the genealogies * The Economist *
Splendidly painstaking and enormously readable -- Arthur Marshall * New Statesman *
With a keen sense of precedence and an admirable grasp of the British peerage system, he darts from duke to duke... racing up and down the genealogies * The Economist *
Brian Masters has written on a wide range of subjects, from dukes to gorillas to murderers. His account of the addictive killer Dennis Nilsen, Killing for Company, won the Gold Dagger Award in 1985, and he followed this with studies of Jeffrey Dahmer and Rosemary West. In between, there were biographies of John Aspinall, Georgina Duchess of Devonshire, Marie Corelli, and E. F. Benson, as well as a book on India and a celebration of Great Hostesses (such as Cunard and Colefax). His book on moral philosophy was entitled The Evil That Men Do. He also published his own memoirs, Getting Personal, in 2002.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780712667241 |
| ISBN 10 | 0712667245 |
| Title | The Dukes |
| Author | Brian Masters |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage |
| Year published | 2001-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
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