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Title: Biography at its best
Review: This is the most fascinating, fast-paced and thoroughly researched biography I have read in a long time! While depicting this intelligent, practical, and often unsensitive and cruel man, Mr. Massie has also succeeded in portraying for us the complex, war-ridden and changing times in which he lived. He depicts the rapaciousness of contemporary politics, the miseries and hardships of war, the greed of the rich and powerful... but without unnecessary sentimentalism, and without (as far as I could ascertain) straying from historical fact. His human subject remains interesting and many-faceted to the end. In writing this great and ambitious book, Mr. Massie has given us a work of epical dimensions.
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