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4823459The Scapegoathttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-scapegoat-9780062940155/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4395113/image.jpg?v=638490409843800000381465MXNHarperCollinsInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>Winner of the Plutarch Award</strong></p><p><strong>Winner of the Publishing Triangles Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction</strong></p><p><strong>Shortlisted for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize</strong></p><p><strong>From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary history of the meteoric rise and fall of George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham.</strong></p><p>As King James Is favorite, Buckingham was also his confidant, gatekeeper, advisor and lover. When Charles I succeeded his father, he was similarly enthralled and made Buckingham his best friend and mentor. A dazzling figure on horseback and a skillful player of the political game, Buckingham rapidly transformed the influence his beauty gave him into immense wealth and power. He became one of the most flamboyant and enigmatic Englishmen at the heart of seventeenth-century royal and political life.</p><p>With a novelists touch, Lucy Hughes-Hallett transports us into a courtly world of masques and dancing, exquisite clothes, the art of Rubens and Van Dyck, gender-fluidity, same-sex desire, and appallingly rudimentary medicine. Witch hunts coexisted with Descartian rationality and public opinion was becoming a political force. Falling from grace spectacularly, Buckingham came to represent everything that was wrong with the country.</p><p>From kidnappings and murder plots to men weeping in Parliament over civil liberties, <em>The Scapegoat</em> navigates love, war-fever and pacifism in a society on the brink of cataclysmic change. In this immersive and authoritative account, Hughes-Hallett summons an era that still resonates today.</p>...4585951The Scapegoat381465https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-scapegoat-9780062940155/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4395113/image.jpg?v=638490409843800000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20249780062940155_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_<p>The Scapegoat has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.</p>...(*_*)9780062940155_<p><strong>Shortlisted for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize</strong></p><p><strong>From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary history of the meteoric rise and fall of George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham.</strong></p><p>As King James Is favorite, Buckingham was also his confidant, gatekeeper, advisor and lover. When Charles I succeeded his father, he was similarly enthralled and made Buckingham his best friend and mentor. A dazzling figure on horseback and a skillful player of the political game, Buckingham rapidly transformed the influence his beauty gave him into immense wealth and power. He became one of the most flamboyant and enigmatic Englishmen at the heart of seventeenth-century royal and political life.</p><p>With a novelists touch, Lucy Hughes-Hallett transports us into a courtly world of masques and dancing, exquisite clothes, the art of Rubens and Van Dyck, gender-fluidity, same-sex desire, and appallingly rudimentary medicine. Witch hunts coexisted with Descartian rationality and public opinion was becoming a political force. Falling from grace spectacularly, Buckingham came to represent everything that was wrong with the country.</p><p>From kidnappings and murder plots to men weeping in Parliament over civil liberties, <em>The Scapegoat</em> navigates love, war-fever and pacifism in a society on the brink of cataclysmic change. In this immersive and authoritative account, Hughes-Hallett summons an era that still resonates today.</p>...(*_*)9780062940155_<p><strong>Winner of the Publishing Triangles Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction</strong></p><p><strong>Shortlisted for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize</strong></p><p><strong>From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary history of the meteoric rise and fall of George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham.</strong></p><p>As King James Is favorite, Buckingham was also his confidant, gatekeeper, advisor and lover. When Charles I succeeded his father, he was similarly enthralled and made Buckingham his best friend and mentor. A dazzling figure on horseback and a skillful player of the political game, Buckingham rapidly transformed the influence his beauty gave him into immense wealth and power. He became one of the most flamboyant and enigmatic Englishmen at the heart of seventeenth-century royal and political life.</p><p>With a novelists touch, Lucy Hughes-Hallett transports us into a courtly world of masques and dancing, exquisite clothes, the art of Rubens and Van Dyck, gender-fluidity, same-sex desire, and appallingly rudimentary medicine. Witch hunts coexisted with Descartian rationality and public opinion was becoming a political force. Falling from grace spectacularly, Buckingham came to represent everything that was wrong with the country.</p><p>From kidnappings and murder plots to men weeping in Parliament over civil liberties, <em>The Scapegoat</em> navigates love, war-fever and pacifism in a society on the brink of cataclysmic change. In this immersive and authoritative account, Hughes-Hallett summons an era that still resonates today.</p>...(*_*)9780062940155_<p><strong>Winner of the Plutarch Award</strong></p><p><strong>Winner of the Publishing Triangles Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction</strong></p><p><strong>Shortlisted for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize</strong></p><p><strong>From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary history of the meteoric rise and fall of George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham.</strong></p><p>As King James Is favorite, Buckingham was also his confidant, gatekeeper, advisor and lover. When Charles I succeeded his father, he was similarly enthralled and made Buckingham his best friend and mentor. A dazzling figure on horseback and a skillful player of the political game, Buckingham rapidly transformed the influence his beauty gave him into immense wealth and power. He became one of the most flamboyant and enigmatic Englishmen at the heart of seventeenth-century royal and political life.</p><p>With a novelists touch, Lucy Hughes-Hallett transports us into a courtly world of masques and dancing, exquisite clothes, the art of Rubens and Van Dyck, gender-fluidity, same-sex desire, and appallingly rudimentary medicine. Witch hunts coexisted with Descartian rationality and public opinion was becoming a political force. Falling from grace spectacularly, Buckingham came to represent everything that was wrong with the country.</p><p>From kidnappings and murder plots to men weeping in Parliament over civil liberties, <em>The Scapegoat</em> navigates love, war-fever and pacifism in a society on the brink of cataclysmic change. In this immersive and authoritative account, Hughes-Hallett summons an era that still resonates today.</p>...9780062940155_HarperCollinslibro_electonico_9780062940155_9780062940155Lucy Hughes-HallettInglésMéxico2024-11-19T00:00:00+00:00https://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/harpercollins-epub-6ec683e5-b9fc-4acb-8ced-16da7f68335b.epub2024-11-19T00:00:00+00:00HarperCollins