Volume 20, Number 8 · May 17, 1973
Right About Face
By Noel Annan
Wellington: Pillar of State
by Elizabeth Longford
Harper & Row, 472 pp., $10.00
It is impossible to write a bad life of the Duke of Wellington. Guedalla nearly did, but not even his vulgarity could diminish the stature of the Englishman most nearly resembling the legendary heroes of ancient Rome. The Duke possessed gravitas. He knew where he stood in relation to all other men from his sovereign to his gardener; but the self-confidence this gave him was checked by a proper, though not excessive, modesty and an iron sense of public duty.
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