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...Post family fortunes (last estimated as high as $250 million) began with Charles William Post, a farm-machinery salesman and inventor whose Welsh ancestors had come to America in 1633. In the 1890s, Post moved with his wife and only child to Battle Creek, Mich., in hopes of improving his health. When the change failed to help, Post came up with a cure of his own. After concocting a combination of wheat, molasses and bran as a healthful coffee substitute, Postpatented his recipe, dubbed the mixture Postum, and launched one of the first advertising campaigns for a prepared food...
Hughes was widely praised for it, in part because the private concerns of characters had an ironic bearing on the public doings of the historical figures. The young hero, an enlightened Welsh aristocrat named Augustine Penry-Herbert, seemed to exemplify the misguided good will of his generation in England; he believed that 1917 had ended, not begun, the pattern of world wars. The Bavarian relatives whom Augustine visited for a while reflected the social and psychological disarray of Germany in the early 1920s. The concluding set piece of Hitler's abortive 1923 beer-hall putsch in Munich suggested...
...problem is Hughes' passive protagonist. Augustine has intelligence, a keen eye and challenging ideas about the immorality of power. Yet as he seeks any diversion but work, as he shies away from marrying, or as he takes an interest in Welsh miners while avoiding involvement in Britain's general strike of 1926, Augustine begins to seem like some maddening dilettante who will not face up to what Hughes, in an endearing, old-fashioned way, calls the human predicament. Perhaps anticipating the reader's disenchantment with Augustine, Hughes has his cynical Tory friend Jeremy make a plea about...
...little band that represents the Liberal Party in Britain's House of Commons has the ragtag and comically mismatched look of Sergeant Bilko's platoon. It includes a 300-lb. spring maker, a Welsh barrister, a teacher from the Scottish highlands and an insurance manager from one of London's blue-blood suburbs. Their leader is an engaging aristocrat, Jeremy Thorpe, 44, an amateur violinist and accomplished mimic whose ancestors were serving in Parliament in the 14th century. Now the band has been joined by David Austick, a bald lay preacher and bookseller, and Clement Freud...
...Bordersville's most community-minded family. "The water came all up in here when it rained last month," the old man said, pointing to the front of a sagging wooden shack trimmed with Christmas tree lights. "All the water flows down here from the main road. This is Louis Welsh Street, the worst street in Bordersville." A hundred yards up the road, Louis Welsh Street intersected Martin Luther King Avenue, then disappeared into the thick Texas brush...