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An adventurer and charlatan A clever rogue Or perspicacious politician, founder of the modern British Conservative party These different characteristics have all had their supporters: Disraeli rarely experienced indifference from his contemporaries.

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This book explores how his reputation has changed and analyses the major issues in light of contemporary and later perceptions of this controversial king.

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A fresh interpretation of 'the man who ended the Cold War'.

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Louis XVI was the central character in the French Revolution, a major turning point in world history. Yet he remains largely unknown or, rather, stereotyped as the stupid, lazy, weak, and ultimately treasonous king dominated by Marie-Antoinette.

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There is no shortage of characterizations of Napoleon, but not since Peter Geyl's classic Napoleon: For and Against in the 1940s has a writer tried to assess his many reputations and how they have evolved, and continue to evolve.

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Neville Chamberlain remains one of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century British politics. This book seeks to explain how he went from being admired, and even revered, to a reviled and disdained public figure. while offering the author's assessment of what Chamberlain's historical reputation ought to be.

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This book examines Richard Nixon within the context of the emerging revisionism that his place in history should not be defined entirely by Watergate. It assesses his many achievements and explains his equally numerous shortcomings.

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This comprehensive new study provides an original and provocative approach to Cromwell's reputation and role in the English revolution. J. C. Davis's penetrating analysis reveals Cromwell's successes and failures and offers a fascinating assessment of his life and achievements.

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This book is not a biography of Margaret Thatcher. It is a study of how her reputation in both the domestic and international sphere was constructed by Thatcher and others over the course of her career.

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This book investigates whether the popular conception of Becket through the ages is a result of valid assessments of the man and his cause, or a product of a carefully constructed myth, and how far can one correct for the bias and reach the truth'.