Good grief. I'm feeling so vindicated in having disliked this book 25 years ago, as well as not having finished his bio of Marcus Aurelius 12 years ago!
What on earth. Why the random dissing of the Poles??
I could see a *contemporary* doing it, since the Poles didn't have the greatest reputation in this period (their country is soon to be dismantled), and BPC's mother was Polish...but what's McLynn's excuse in 1988?
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Re: "Charles Edward Stuart", by Frank McLynn (1988)
Date: 2024-02-20 02:12 am (UTC)What on earth. Why the random dissing of the Poles??
I could see a *contemporary* doing it, since the Poles didn't have the greatest reputation in this period (their country is soon to be dismantled), and BPC's mother was Polish...but what's McLynn's excuse in 1988?