Memories of Men and Women American & British

A.L. Rowse is well known as an authority on the Elizabethan Age and as the author of the Churchill family history. He is an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy, and lives in Cornwall, England.

...provides a generational backdrop of intellectual and personal bonds that will be hard to duplicate in the late 20th century. The value of Rowse's essays is that they provide another thread from Henry James into modern times, revealing and defining Europeans and Americans of early and mid-century... Europe This book is a treasure chest of anecdotes, ideas and insights) and a historian's personal glimpses of his great contemporaries... Barbara W. Tuchman This book is a treasure chest of anecdotes, ideas and insights) and a historian's personal glimpses of his great contemporaries... Barbara W. Tuchman ...provides a generational backdrop of intellectual and personal bonds that will be hard to duplicate in the late 20th century. The value of Rowse's essays is that they provide another thread from Henry James into modern times, revealing and defining Europeans and Americans of early and mid-century... Europe