![]() Nothing like looking at minor royals to make meritocracy look pretty good. The result is a feast for the reader and a model for writers of how to make something out of nothing.Īnother thing I like about this book is that it undercuts some of my own critique of the meritocracy, which I frequently belabor in this blog. And he lays out these impressions in a series of 99 brief but poisonously pleasurable chapters. It’s as if she only existed in her reflection. ![]() ![]() In this book, he provides not a biography but a set of impressions of Queen Elizabeth’s younger sister as they were recounted by the people around her. ![]() How do you write a book about someone famous who never did anything? Craig Brown found an answer with his book, Nine-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret. ![]()
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