Quarrel with the King: The Story of an English Family on the High Road to Civil War (Audiobook)

from NaggedMan

Fascinating book, let down by three things. First, the author strains too hard to link everything about Wilton and the Herberts into his thesis on the impact of the 'Arcadia' concept on the people and events of the period. Second, although much of the writing is fine, there are two many lapses in...

from JBD1

Given the number of titles under which this book has been released, clearly there's a bit of confusion about the focal point of the study, something made pretty clear when reading. It's not really so much about the Pembroke family's "quarrel with the king" as with the changing fortunes of the gre...

from RandyHarper

This book was a bit stuffy and eclectic but it did have some wonderful insight into the wealthy Pembroke family as well as some vivid descriptions of some of the larger estates in England. It was quite dry and textbookish so it was a bit difficult to push on to the end. Overall it was just ok.

from Cariola

While Nicolson's well-researched history focuses on the Pembroke family, his true subject is the shifting English power politics and economic base in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Earls of Pembroke are the perfect representation of the rapidly changing social and political structur...