![]() ![]() ![]() His numerous books include Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789-2006, published in 2007 as part of the Oxford History of Modern Europe, Conflict and Conciliation in Irish Nationalism 1890-1910, a best-selling biography of Parnell and Ideology and the Irish Question, 1912-16. The Strange Death of Liberal England is one of the most important books of the English past, a prime example that history can be. ![]() Paul Bew is Professor of Irish Politics at Queen's University, Belfast, a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and a cross-bench member of the House of Lords. He said of historical writing that it should be "a combination of taste, imagination, science and scholarship it reconciles incompatibles, it balances probabilities and at last attains the reality of fiction", an ambition he realised with his greatest book, The Strange Death of Liberal England. His books include The Awakening of American Nationalism: 1815-1828 and The Era of Good Feelings: A Study of American Politics from 1811 to 1829, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for American History. After serving in the US Army during the Second World War, he worked as a journalist and teacher. ![]() In 1930 he moved to the United States, where he worked in publishing and then as literary editor of Vanity Fair. George Dangerfield was born in 1904, went to school in East London and read English at Hertford College, Oxford. ![]()
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