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David Gilmour Curzon: Imperial Statesman. Farrar, Strans and Giroux, 684 pages, $45
This long but splendid biography of George Nathaniel Curzon is worth reading, if for no other reason than that the problems Curzon wrestled with in Asia, at the apogee of the British empire, continue to haunt its successor--the current U.S. imperium. His tempestuous life reads like a Greek tragedy. Along with incomparable gifts of intellect and boundless energy, he inherited an arrogance that ultimately led to both his triumphs and eventual disappointment. Because Curzon was a member of the aristocratic circle providing the leaders of the Tory party during the high noon of the ...
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