Volume 8, Number 12 · June 29, 1967
Tough Job
By J.P. Kenyon
Henry Plantagenet
by Richard Barber
Roy, 278 pp., $6.95
Cast of Ravens
by Beatrice White
Braziller, 260 pp., $6.00
William III and the Defense of European Liberty
by Stephen B. Baxter
Harcourt, Brace & World, 462 pp., $8.75
George the Magnificent: A Portrait of King George IV
by Joanna Richardson
Harcourt, Brace & World, 410 pp., $6.95
Successful kingship, like all great leadership, defies analysis. The Plantagenet Henry II of England handed on to posterity a shining reputation as a great administrator and a great man, while his son John, certainly more intelligent and probably more able, is one of the great villains of English history. Only one thing is clear: intellectuals had little chance of success in this exacting profession.
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