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The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham Hughes-Hallett
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Release Year
- 2024
- ISBN
- 9780062940131
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062940139
ISBN-13
9780062940131
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7066172703
Product Key Features
Book Title
Scapegoat : the Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
Number of Pages
688 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), Social History
Publication Year
2024
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.9 in
Item Weight
1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2024-016762
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"Lord Buckingham rockets off the page of this gloriously epic, seductively detailed biography: a man of impossible contradictions, at once hubristic warmonger, tender lover and brilliant power-broker to two kings. Lucy Hughes-Hallett opens a spyhole into the dark, strange world of the Stuart kings, with its masques and superstitions, where a beautiful boy could rise to become the most powerful man in Britain." -- Olivia Laing, author of Everybody
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
941.061092
Synopsis
Winner of the Plutarch Award Winner of the Publishing Triangle's Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction Shortlisted for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary history of the meteoric rise and fall of George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham. As King James I's favorite, Buckingham was also his confidant, gatekeeper, advisor and lover. When Charles I succeeded his father, he was similarly enthralled and made Buckingham his best friend and mentor. A dazzling figure on horseback and a skillful player of the political game, Buckingham rapidly transformed the influence his beauty gave him into immense wealth and power. He became one of the most flamboyant and enigmatic Englishmen at the heart of seventeenth-century royal and political life. With a novelist's touch, Lucy Hughes-Hallett transports us into a courtly world of masques and dancing, exquisite clothes, the art of Rubens and Van Dyck, gender-fluidity, same-sex desire, and appallingly rudimentary medicine. Witch hunts coexisted with Descartian rationality and public opinion was becoming a political force. Falling from grace spectacularly, Buckingham came to represent everything that was wrong with the country. From kidnappings and murder plots to men weeping in Parliament over civil liberties, The Scapegoat navigates love, war-fever and pacifism in a society on the brink of cataclysmic change. In this immersive and authoritative account, Hughes-Hallett summons an era that still resonates today.
LC Classification Number
DA391.1.B9H84 2024
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