18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 35

[cahn]

In the previous post Charles II found AITA:

Look, I, m, believe in live and let live. (And in not going on my travels again. Had enough of that to last a life time.) Why can't everyone else around me be more chill? Instead, my wife refuses to employ my girlfriend, my girlfriend won't budge and accept another office, my brother is set on a course to piss off everyone (he WILL go on his travels again), and my oldest kid shows signs of wanting my job which is just not on, sorry to say. And don't get me started about Mom (thank God she's living abroad). What am I doing wrong? AITA?

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Re: The Road Not Taken - Frank McLynn

[mildred_of_midgard]

These were both very interesting, thank you! I had probably run across both facts in my reading but they didn't stick, because politics weren't my main interest.

McLynn is the author of what seems to be the definitive biography of BPC.

I definitely read this at least once, but I wasn't critically assessing different authors in those days (mostly just getting outraged if I found mistakes or "mistakes"), so I can't tell you what I thought of it, alas.

Re: The Road Not Taken - Frank McLynn

[luzula]

He occasionally did that annoying thing where he made a judgment about somebody's character without backing it up. Hopefully he does better work when he writes book length on the topic, instead of writing just a chapter to sum it up…