Biographer
Plutarch and the Historical Tradition
Plutarch was indisputably one of the most prominent of the philosophers and biographers of the ancient world.
Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property
Kevin Hart traces the vast literary legacy and reputation of Samuel Johnson.
Poor Relief and Charity 1869-1945
This volume challenges many widely held beliefs about the efficacy of the London Charity Organisation Society. Politicians, social administrators, sociologists, economists, biographers and historians have been swayed by the strength of their propaganda.
FDR
One of today?s premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance
One of Britain's premier royal biographers pens the first in a series of fiendishly clever and stylish historical murder mysteriesLovers of historical mystery will relish this chilling Victorian tale based on real events and cloaked in authenticity.
Profiling Shakespeare
The title of this collection, Profiling Shakespeare, is meant strongly in its double sense. These essays show the outline of a Shakespeare rather different from the man sought by biographers from his time to our own.