Aristocrats: Power, Grace, and Decadence by Lawrence James, Lawrence James
Aristocrats: Power, Grace, and Decadence

Lawrence James, Lawrence James

Aristocrats: Power, Grace, and Decadence

Lawrence James, Lawrence James

400 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

fiction biography history informative slow-paced
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Aristocracy means "rule by the best." For nine hundred years, the British aristocracy considered itself ideally qualified to rule others, make laws, and guide the nation. Its virtues lay in its collective wisdom, its attachment to chivalric codes,...

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