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Quarrel with the King : The Story of an English Family on the High Road to Civil War

by Adam Nicolson

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Spanning the most turbulent and dramatic years of English history--from the 1520s through 1650--"Quarrel with the King" tells the remarkable saga of one of the greatest families in English history, the Pembrokes, following their glamorous trajectory... Read more

Spanning the most turbulent and dramatic years of English history--from the 1520s through 1650--"Quarrel with the King" tells the remarkable saga of one of the greatest families in English history, the Pembrokes, following their glamorous trajectory across three generations of change, ambition, resistance, and war. With vivid color and fascinating detail, acclaimed historian Adam Nicolson recounts the story of a century-long power struggle between England's richest family and the English Crown--a fascinating study of divided loyalties, corruption, rights and privilege, and all the ambiguities involved in the exercise and maintenance of power and status. Less

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File size7.98x5.28x0.83inches
Print pages306
PublisherHarper Perennial
Publication date November 1, 2009
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780061154324
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Adam Nicolson
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Adam Nicolson is the author of many books on history, travel and the environment. He is the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the British Topography Prize and lives on a farm in Sussex. This is...

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