The author of the greatest diary in the English language is hard to compete with, but since Pepys kept his diary for only 10 years (eye trouble ended it), Coote is otherwise on his own. Although he cannot match the diarist's racy prose, Coote...
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Stephen Coote, Author St. Martin's Press $27.95 (409p) ISBN 978-0-312-22687-9
Biographer Coote (John Keats, etc.) offers a fast-moving, engaging but unoriginal biography of the king whose Restoration brought a lull in the factional fighting that had wracked 17th-century England. Coote clearly has the gift of gab and brings...
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Stephen Coote, Author Da Capo Press $27.5 (308p) ISBN 978-0-306-81408-2
This literary, almost novelistic treatment of the 100 days between Napoleon's escape from Elba and his capitulation after Waterloo uses the period as a lens through which to examine his character in general. By so doing, Coote (A Play of Passion:...
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