by Jonathan Gifford | Jun 25, 2012 | Leaders from History
Horatio Nelson, who would become Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson as he was successively promoted and honoured by the Royal Navy and a grateful British nation, was a consummate leader of men. A brilliant strategist, politically well-informed and adept, he was always...
by Jonathan Gifford | Jun 25, 2012 | Reviews
I don’t normally give books bad reviews. This is because I only have time to read books about subjects that interest me, and there is nearly always something worth praising in the efforts of an author who has gone to the trouble of writing a book about a shared...
by Jonathan Gifford | Jun 25, 2012 | Leaders from History
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord, known to history (thankfully) as ‘Talleyrand’, is the towering figure of late-eighteenth century diplomacy. A man who forged alliances with nation states in the attempt to prevent wars or to influence their outcome, and who...
by Jonathan Gifford | Jun 25, 2012 | Leaders from History
John Churchill, the ancestor of Britain’s wartime Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, rose from relative obscurity to become the first Duke of Marlborough and one of the richest men in England. He served five monarchs (Charles II, James II, William &...
by Jonathan Gifford | Jun 25, 2012 | Culture, Reviews
I have been reading some of the flakier right wing American thinkers, mainly for entertainment, but also because I am fretting about whether there are some interesting ideas about government hidden beneath the strident ranting of most libertarian thinkers. Wanting...
