Eminent Elizabethans: Rupert Murdoch, Margaret Thatcher, Prince Charles & Mick Jagger

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 • Rupert Murdoch, outrageous media baron whose empire, built in an 'ethical void', controls contemporary channels of knowledge;  • Prince Charles, quack dilettante whose messy private life shook the throne;  • Margaret Thatcher, the daughter of a grocer whose authoritarian regime undid much of Britain's post-war legacy; and  • Mick Jagger, the big-lipped egotist whose excesses epitomized the swinging sixties.Each had their part to play in the continuity and change that marked the twentieth century, from the cultural revolution of the 1960s which transformed the modern world, to the subsequent reaction against this modern devil's decade.Modelled on Lytton Strachey's classic work about the Victorians, these irreverent and insightful miniatures, set in vivid historical context, shednew light on the Elizabethan age as a whole.

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PIERS BRENDON is the author of more than a dozen books, including biographies of Churchill and Eisenhower, the best-selling Eminent Edwardians and The Dark Valley, and, most recently, the highly acclaimed The Decline and Fall of the British Empire. He also writes for television and contributes frequently to the national press. Formerly Keeper of the Churchill Archives Centre, he isa Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.