HENRY THE EIGHTH—Francis Hackett —Liveright ($3).
He stood among his councilors, taller than any, "hot-looking, heavily perfumed" —the new king. He was 18, golden-haired, pink-and-white, husky, gusty, eager to begin the business of running England. His penny-pinching old father had run that business pretty well, had piled up money, but the son thought Henry VII had been piddling. He would speed up the small but rich-going concern, put himself and England on the map. He always thought of himself first and said that all he did was...
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