Michael Manser

2004-09-03T00:00:00

BooksI read a lot and in recent months biographies of notables in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Four biographies of Wren, the best His Invention So Fertile by Adrian Tinniswood ; two of Pepys; also of John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, luminaries of the American bid for independence. Both ...

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