Stephen Koss author of a biography of Asquith, teaches history at Columbia. The second volume of his Rise and Fall of the Political Press in Britain was published in March.
Readers who had encountered its first volume would have known that Stephen Koss’s work on the British political press was monumental. Now it has become his monument in another, brutally...
This is the first of two volumes designed to describe the British press and its connection with politics and politicians from 1850 to 1951. It is a formidable task, and one cannot be surprised...
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