Curzon

“ [An] elegant biography” of the British statesman’s accomplished and controversial life and career: “A fast-moving, entertaining and finely written story” (Simon Schama, The New Yorker ). George Nathaniel Curzon’s controversial life in public service stretched from the high noon of his country’s empire to the traumatized years following World War I. As Viceroy of India under Queen Victoria and Foreign Secretary under King George V, the obsessive Lord Curzon left his unmistakable mark on the era