Eminent Georgians: The Lives of King George V, Elizabeth Bowen, st John Philby, & Nancy Astor

Halperin considers how their world shaped these four personalities, and the impact they had on their era. Halperin writes that all four a king; an author exposed as a World War II spy; the father of the notorious Kim Philby; and the American divorcTe who became the first female member of Parliament embody the simultaneous allegiance of many Georgians both to tradition and to change, to the status quo and to the future. "Their spiritual and historical ambivalence defines the age they lived in," he writes, "and the age they lived in, it may be, was defined in some small way by the lives they led." Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.