This is another biography by Andre Maurois, and it is difficult to know how much to believe. It reads very much like a novel; he seems a bit too keen on his subject. The most interesting part is the discussion about how elections were conducted in those times, only a few hundred years ago. The Blackadder joke about Rotten Boroughs turns out to be no joke, there really were electorates with a handful of voters. And other electorates in which the votes were up for sale, everyone knew and it was all above board.