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...George III: The Life and Reign of Britain’s Most Misunderstood Monarch by Andrew Roberts, Allen Lane £35, 784 pages; in the US as The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III Viking, $40...
...Last but not least, Robert Kyncl becomes chief executive of Warner Music. The former chief business officer at YouTube joins as the music industry is riding a wave of streaming revenues....
...She recently sent to Manchin a private message literally on a silver platter — one given to her by her good friend, the late West Virginia senator Robert C Byrd, a hero of Manchin’s....
...Yet as Robert Musil showed in his novel The Man Without Qualities, there was always something chimerical about the Habsburgs and the empire they had fashioned....
...Stowe, for instance, is steeped in political, sexual and royal messages including the Temple of Modern Virtue, built as a ruin around a decapitated bust resembling Robert Walpole....
...Allen Lane, revered as the founder of Penguin, “did not appear ever to have read a whole book”, according to a quote in Jeremy Lewis’ Penguin Special....
...HR McMaster, US national security adviser, who oversaw the strategy, this week said China — along with Russia — was a “revisionist power” that was “undermining the international order”....
...Trump knows that and so does McMaster,” said Mr Allen. “I hope that Bannon figures that out quickly before we have a collision....
...The fifth in the series, set in Paris, has Bruno up to his neck in the court of Henry III as Catholic extremists under the Duke of Guise plan a coup. Well-crafted, exuberant fare....
...Frances’s predecessor, the 81-year-old Robert Spitzer, is in no doubt about why the DSM-III, over which he presided, had been such a hit....
...Much of the recent lobbying activity has focused round Basel III banking rules which many banks have complained are too onerous and about which there has been intense lobbying for years....
...Gibbs then passed it on to William Robert Prince of the Linnaean Botanic Garden in Flushing, Long Island, who named it Isabella (Vitis isabellae) in 1822 in honour of the colonel’s wife, Mrs Isabella Gibbs...
...Robert Redford, Clint Eastwood, Faye Dunaway were all mooted for previous versions....
...“I couldn’t put it better than Woody Allen does, ‘Just give me a good game and a good beer.’ I’m just like the next guy.”...
...Now, elements within Goldman’s prop team are reportedly weighing a wholesale shift to the likes of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the private equity firm, or BlackRock, the fund manager....
...In related cases, Robert Allen Stanford, chairman of SFG; Laura Pendergest-Holt, the chief investment officer of SFG; Gilberto Lopez, SFG’s chief accounting officer; Mark Kuhrt SFG’s global controller; and...
...Andrew Roberts’ ‘Masters and Commanders: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West’ is published by Allen Lane, £25...
...Thomas Allen rose to the challenge magnificently, surrounded by a cast that understood the value Bernstein put on entertainment....
...POLITICS & RELIGION Compiled by David Honigmann Comrades: A World History of Communism By Robert Service Macmillan £25, 624 pages FT bookshop price: £20 Robert Service, a historian of Soviet communism...
...Residenza Napoleone III, Rome At €1,200 a night, Residenza Napoleone III equals a junior suite at Hotel de Russie....
...Steven Johnson’s The Ghost Map (Allen Lane, ₤16.99) also covers this subject....
...Their academic contributors find more to like in Blair III than in his rocky second term....
...A softly spoken Californian with receding, light-brown hair and Woody Allen-esque glasses, he has lived in London since the late 1980s and has a bookish innocence....
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