Rosebery: Statesman in Turmoil - Softcover

“An absolutely wonderful biography, gripping and entertaining,”
A.N. Wilson, Evening Standard

“Superbly well researched and well written....A truly first-class addition to the genre of Prime Ministerial biography.”
Andrew Roberts, Sunday Telegraph

“As well as being meticulously researched, the book is beautifully written and has tremendous pace.”
Literary Review

“An authoritative and original biography which is also a riveting read.”
Spectator

“I do not expect to read a more enjoyable or more thoughtful political biography for a long time to come.”
Ferdinand Mount, London Review of Books

“With masterly skill and sympathy, Leo McKinstry resurrects Rosebery as the Hamlet of late Victorian England, a moody, mercurial, brilliant loner who was a source of awed fascination to his contemporaries.”
Daily Mail

“No reader of Leo McKinstry’s judicious, well-researched and engrossing portrait can fail to be mesmerised by Rosebery’s personality and complex political legacy.”
Sunday Times

“Rosebery, an accomplished author in his own right who hated pretension in writing, would surely have admired McKinstry’s clear, lucid style and his eye for humour.”
Mail on Sunday

“McKinstry has done a service to everyone interested in British politics.”
Financial Times 

“Remarkable.”
Country Life

“An admirable, extremely readable biography, Rosebery has what every biographer needs: secrets.”
Scotsman

“A first-class biography, scholarly, judicious and always interesting.”
Glasgow Herald

“This impressive book.”
BBC History Magazine

“Hard to put down. Leo McKinstry has painted a fascinating portrait of a glamorous but tortured politician.”
Irish News