A Very Bad Case
Michael Brock, 11 June 1992
Herbert Samuel: A Political Life
by Bernard Wasserstein.
Oxford, 427 pp., £45, January 1992,0 19 822648 9 Show More
by Bernard Wasserstein.
Oxford, 427 pp., £45, January 1992,
“... compared Peel’s smile to the silver plate on a coffin. Samuel’s ‘sense of humour’, Beatrice Webb noted, ‘takes the irritating form of tactless irony at the expense of the people he is talking to’. It is a feat to have dealt perceptively with all the phases of so long a career. Under this guidance we can understand Samuel’s thoughts ... ”