Warwick the Kingmaker [Import] [Paperback]

Paul Murray Kendall (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Cardinal Books; New Ed edition (October 1973)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0351170960
• ISBN-13: 978-0351170966
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,838,635 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good History, not the Tutor propoganda, May 7, 1998

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[e-mail] (Berwyn, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Warwick the Kingmaker (Paperback)

As one of the two best biographies of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, this book enables one to understand the complexities. He was not the "Last of the Barons" - especially since he was an earl ;-), as Shakespeare made him out, but rather a betrayed and fair person who did not want power, but rather good government. The book brings out the trials of a man betrayed and finally defeated, but his ideals lived on. A Warwick! A Warwick!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping Drama, March 8, 1998

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[e-mail] (Texas, Dallas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Warwick the Kingmaker (Paperback)

Excellent reading which you won't want to put down. Traces the life of THE KINGMAKER as he is buffeted by the winds of fortune, endlessly rising and falling until meeting his death at Barnet Field. Will make you feel Warwick's surging energy as he carries the fortunes of the White Rose on his back. His self contemplation before the Battle of Barnet is powerful stuff.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Warwick--The man and the image, February 29, 2000

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Gregory Huber - See all my reviews

This review is from: Warwick the Kingmaker (Paperback)

A very balanced biography of this enigmatic figure. It presents his intense energy and desire for good government, but also as an extremely ambitious, proud man who allowed himself to be caught in the web of the great Spider King, Louis XI of France. I wish Kendall had not included his periodic flights of fancy (imaginary dialogue, going into the mind of a man long dead), but this is a highly readable and detailed book.