Meditations Of A Broomstick
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few figures in twentieth-century British intellectual life command the breadth of achievement that Victor, 3rd Baron Rothschild, brought to bear on his remarkably varied career — and Meditations of a Broomstick distils that singular mind into a collection of essays that crackle with wit, erudition, and wry self-awareness. Spanning science, politics, public service, and the peculiarities of the human condition, the pieces gathered here present a portrait of a man who moved effortlessly between the Cambridge laboratory, the corridors of Whitehall, and the literary salon, always armed with an acerbic turn of phrase and an insatiable curiosity about the world. Lord Rothschild's prose style is deceptively light — urbane and conversational on the surface, yet underpinned by a formidable intelligence that illuminates each subject with uncommon precision. The title itself, borrowed from Jonathan Swift's satirical pamphlet, signals the book's debt to a long tradition of English ironic writing, and Rothschild wears that inheritance with easy confidence. Whether reflecting on the absurdities of bureaucracy, the pleasures of scientific inquiry, or the nature of public life, he argues his case with the effortless authority of a man who has lived it — leaving the reader to wonder, with some envy, what else that restless mind might have found to say.
Author: Lord Rothschild
Format: Hardback
Published: 1977, William Collins.
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few figures in twentieth-century British intellectual life command the breadth of achievement that Victor, 3rd Baron Rothschild, brought to bear on his remarkably varied career — and Meditations of a Broomstick distils that singular mind into a collection of essays that crackle with wit, erudition, and wry self-awareness. Spanning science, politics, public service, and the peculiarities of the human condition, the pieces gathered here present a portrait of a man who moved effortlessly between the Cambridge laboratory, the corridors of Whitehall, and the literary salon, always armed with an acerbic turn of phrase and an insatiable curiosity about the world. Lord Rothschild's prose style is deceptively light — urbane and conversational on the surface, yet underpinned by a formidable intelligence that illuminates each subject with uncommon precision. The title itself, borrowed from Jonathan Swift's satirical pamphlet, signals the book's debt to a long tradition of English ironic writing, and Rothschild wears that inheritance with easy confidence. Whether reflecting on the absurdities of bureaucracy, the pleasures of scientific inquiry, or the nature of public life, he argues his case with the effortless authority of a man who has lived it — leaving the reader to wonder, with some envy, what else that restless mind might have found to say.