A Man of Contradictions: A Life of A.L. Rowse by Richard Ollard

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/249752 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Man of Contradictions: A Life of A.L. Rowse Author: Richard Ollard Narrator: Geoffrey Howard Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 59 minutes Release date: August 27, 2003 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: A. L. Rowse proclaimed himself a genius and raged against the slightest criticism from fellow scholars; he was a Marxist who despised the 'Idiot People'; he could be generous and affectionate yet hurled insults at his friends; he inveighed against Puritanism but was himself in many ways a Puritan. In this clear-sighted and absorbing biography, Richard Ollard examines the many sides of Rowse's Protean personality to reveal a man who, whatever he was responding to--public affairs, the arts, natural beauty or events in his personal life--did so with tremendous energy and passion. 'An urbane study of the celebrated historian.' -Antonia Fraser, Daily Mail 'Strikes a perfect balance between the Jekyll Rowse and the Hyde Rowse.' -Bevis Hillier, Spectator 'Excellent.' -Katherine Duncan-Jones, TLS