Publisher's Synopsis
In this major biography of the queen, Wallace MacCaffrey focuses on
Elizabeth's career as a practicing politician, taking into account her
testing personal experience, her temperament, her own view of her role
and the constraints she frequently faced whether imposed by the
inheritance from her predecessors or by contemporary events. The
Elizabeth who emerges from these pages has a more human appearance than
the stiff, richly garbed, bejeweled Elizabeth of the royal portraits.
She is more fallible. And more interesting.
