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“... and had a colleague review it for the New York Times. When Junior’s second book, The Age of Jackson, appeared a few years later, Senior successfully pressured his friends on the Pulitzer jury to award it the prize. As Aldous points out, Arthur Senior was outdone by Joseph Kennedy Sr, who not only had JFK’s undergraduate thesis published, but then made ...”

“... as a world power. Henry Stimson, Roosevelt’s war secretary, took a different view. So did Robert Jackson, a Supreme Court justice, though Jackson was clear that ‘you must put no man on trial under forms of a judicial proceeding if you are not willing to see him freed if not proven guilty … the world yields no respect ...”

“... task of identifying any individuals who should be exempted from royal pardon. When introducing the bill that became the Act of Oblivion, General George Monck, who had served as Cromwell’s military commander in Scotland, proposed only five men. In the end, Parliament agreed on more than a hundred. Some were already dead, some had surrendered and ...”

“... Jesse James has stressed his Confederate roots and his support among ex-Confederates in Clay and Jackson Counties in Missouri. Stiles, however, distils James and the James Gang down until nothing is left of them but their secessionist convictions. Other reasons for their actions are ignored, marginalised or explained away. In Stiles’s hands, James is a ...”

“... of affairs). The Scottish and Welsh governments asserted that the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill (EUWB) currently making its way through the Westminster Parliament – an arcane and convoluted piece of legislation – is incompatible with the devolution settlement and that as a result they would refuse to give legislative consent to it. The Sewel ...”

“... in Ukraine, which once again thrust the oligarchs centre stage, has also given a new platform to Bill Browder, one of their most vocal critics. A US-born British citizen, Browder made millions in Russia in the 1990s and early 2000s through his hedge fund, Hermitage Capital. For several years, Hermitage was the largest foreign investor in the country, and ...”

“... doctored dossiers to cavalier disregard for the rule of international law. He quotes General Mike Jackson, who toured Basra in May 2003 after the victory over Saddam. ‘It is startlingly apparent,’ Jackson reported to London, ‘that we are not delivering that which was deemed to be promised and is expected.’ ...”

“... his ‘Strategic Defence Initiative’ nicknamed Star Wars. Defending his inventive tax-reform bill, and challenging the Democrats to make something of it, he gurgled: ‘Make my day!’ But comparisons between his style and that of Dirty Harry are daily discouraged by a pained, overworked White House press office. The apotheosis of all this (‘Where’s ...”

“... past and events and people which, for anyone of my age or less, are as remote as the First Reform Bill or the Charge of the Light Brigade. I have started by reading in parallel Peter Jenkins’s Mrs Thatcher’s Revolution and the two concluding volumes of Halévy’s magisterial History of the English People in the 19th Century, which between them take the ...”

“... I think I own my data.’ And since 2012, his administration has been trying to pass a privacy bill, which has predictably been attacked as a form of government intrusion into the private sector. We’re entering the era of pervasive computing, underpinned by the Internet of Things. Technology will be embedded in the world around us – from wearable tech ...”

“... a record label, bought the movie rights. The subsequent film, which starred Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, as well as Richard Pryor and Lena Horne, was a commercial and critical flop. But it became classic holiday viewing for many Black Americans, including my family. The Wiz is set in late 1970s New York, dingy and rundown, full of dilapidated tenements of ...”

“... David Blunkett’s latest Criminal Justice Bill, this Government’s 12th piece of such legislation since coming to power in 1997, will go a long way to producing a caste of untouchables in this country: those accused of committing a crime. It will strip away safeguards that have taken centuries to accrue, and alienate criminal suspects further from society as a whole ...”

“... who have been milling about the capital for two decades but whose command has now shifted from Bill to Hillary. Despite their differing styles, the intent is the same: rewarding friends and punishing enemies, the latter with such precision that one of her staffers fears Hillary will come to seem little different from ‘Nixon in a pantsuit’. The sense of ...”

“... symbols of the republic. Americans struggled over the meanings of the president’s two bodies: Jackson and Lincoln, for example, made much of their plebeian origins and their virtue, as did their followers. But the singularity of the office led many to see their leaders as something more, from demi-monarchs to patrons who could uplift the people through ...”

“... system’ whereby party functionaries were rewarded with government jobs, and, in Andrew Jackson, a charismatic leader.The intense competition between Democrats and their rivals – the Whigs, and then Republicans – galvanised popular participation in politics. Political leaders became folk heroes, with nicknames like the Great Compromiser (Henry ...”