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`This dynamic and complex man has been splendidly captured in this excellent and long-awaited biography by Deborah Lavin...a sensitive, scrupulously balanced, impressively researched and lucidly written study which pulls no punches but is fair to Curtis's principles and achievements...This is a fine book, lucid, cogent, and crisply argued that should be read by all interested in the empire-commonwealth.' Imperial and Commonwealth History `...remarkable biography...' A. L. Rowse in The Standard `She has a formidable knowledge of relevant archives and theses ... a masterly biography has emerged, handling the material and the enigma with understanding, discipline and discrimination. She has provided a valuable digest of Civitas Dei (pp.266-73), a notably balanced judgement on the effect of the Round Table on the Commonwealth (pp.130, 132, 329) and a similar verdict on his lost causes (pp.317-31).' Frederick Madden, Nuffield College, EHR Nov. 97

This is an excellent book. Deborah Lavin is conspicuously fair and weighs her subject's strengths and weaknesses with elegant dispassion...an important contribution to imperial history, yet contrives at the same time strikingly to illuminate the infinite and bizarre complexity of human nature. Times Literary Supplement

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