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King George the Fifth, by Harold Nicolson. A masterful political biography of a dutiful and old-fashioned man (TIME, June...
KING GEORGE THE FIFTH. HIS LIFE AND REIGN (570 pp.)-Harold Nicolson-Doubleday...
...lifetime George V's character lay hidden behind a formidable beard and the equally protective barrier of royal protocol. In his new biography, Harold Nicolson looks behind beard and protocol to reveal a sovereign who took an active part in the making of history and a man who worked at the job of being King with all the conscientiousness his grandmama could have wished. Nicolson's biography is an authorized one, and his charter has restricted him to the official side of the King's life. But his success in extracting pure gold from the dull metal...
...idea they felt like that about me," George said. Students of British history were also surprised. How could the King, "possessing no demagogic graces," inspire so deep an enthusiasm? Biographer Nicolson supplies the answer: "King George represented and enhanced those domestic and public virtues that [his subjects] regarded as specifically British . . . faith, duty, honesty, courage, common sense, decency and truth...
Light Out. Of all the shadowy figures in the Kremlin, Molotov is the man the world knows most about. In person, he is a small, unprepossessing, pigeon-toed man with golden pince-nez and the hardpan face of a gravedigger. Looking into his eyes, wrote British Diplomat Harold Nicolson, "is like looking into a refrigerator when the lights have gone...