| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.3

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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

R. J. Q. Adams. Bonar Law. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1999. Pp. xvii, 458. $60.00.

Our interest in the lives of Britain's twentieth-century leaders appears unquenchable. At present there are in print multiple biographies of Herbert Asquith and David Lloyd George, not to mention Winston Churchill, whose life has spawned its own publishing industry. Stanley Baldwin, although neglected after World War II, is the subject of a new work by Philip Williamson. Yet, although he served as Conservative leader for more than a decade, piloted his party through the Home Rule crisis and the Great War and, in 1922, formed the first Conservative government in seventeen years, Andrew Bonar Law has received relatively little attention. There have only been two biographies of Bonar Law, and the most recent, Robert Blake's The Unknown Prime Minister: The Life and Times of Andrew Bonar Law, 1858–1923 (1955), is nearly a half-century old. Moreover, as its title suggests, Blake did not challenge the dismissive view articulated by Asquith and echoed by George Dangerfield in The Strange Death of Liberal England (1935). In Dangerfield's estimation, Bonar Law was an unimaginative politician out of his depth. R. J. Q. Adams provides an authoritative biography, rooted in a mastery of the primary sources, which demonstrates how the Conservative leader and prime minister successfully guided his party through this turbulent period. . . .

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