The Young Melbourne & Lord M

<p>Modern Library's 100th best non-fiction book of all time and John F. Kennedy's favourite book.</p><p>A masterful biography of the life of Lord Melbourne - Queen Victoria's Prime Minister and devoted mentor and one of England's most controversial statesmen - whose turbulent marriage to Lady Caroline Lamb was one of the greatest scandals of the era. </p><p>A charming curious and altogether idiosyncratic figure Melbourne is the perfect subject for a biography and David Cecil - with his elegant thoughtful style and perfect scholarship - was his ideal biographer. The resulting work is a true classic of the genre and remains the most important and comprehensive account of Britain's most beguiling and individual Prime Minister.</p><p>This volume contains the entirety of David Cecil's two seminal biographies of Lord Melbourne -<i> The Young Melbourne</i> and <i>Lord M </i>- in one definitive book. </p><p>A superb work of art - Harold Nicholson</p><p>A historian of the heart - L. P. Hartley</p>