Word: massingberd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd Editorial Director, Burke's Peerage Ltd. London
BURKE'S PRESIDENTIAL FAMILIES OF THE UNITED STATES Edited by HUGH MONTGOMERY- MASSINGBERD 676 pages. Arco...
American aristocracy! Simple contradiction in terms. The Memsahib's got a Yankee cousin. Know what his idea of ancient history is? Spiro Agnew. Still, if one's got to deal with foreigners, trust Burke's to do a wizard job. Here: watch Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, editorial director, in the introduction. First he dismisses those with no interest in genealogy as "the real snobs . . . secretly afraid of what they might find." Smashing reverse English, what? When the reader is on the defensive, the director presses home: "The only reason the undersigned can establish the identity of his earliest...