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Jack’s Books: Their Finest Hour
Once upon a time, a great nation chose as its leader, in a moment of peril, a very old man. He’d been around politics for as long as anyone could remember, holding various posts, some successfully, some ineptly. For a time, forgotten. Easy to caricature …