About the Author

Douglas Murray is the bestselling author of The Strange Death of Europe and The Madness of Crowds. He has been a contributor to The Spectator since 2000 and has been Associate Editor at the magazine since 2012. He has also written regularly for numerous other outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The Times, The Sunday Times, the Evening Standard, The New Criterion and National Review.

Reviews

An excellent piece of work, intelligent and well-rounded - Sunday TelegraphMurray's triumph is in making his subject moving . . . The biography's clear prose and detached fascination with his subject constructs an engrossing fin-de-siecle early twentieth century culture without losing objectivity - ObserverMurray is a firm, confident, objective biographer who writes unobtrusively well . . . One of the most impressive biographical debuts for some time . . . It comes across as entirely fresh - Sunday TimesThorough, well-researched and valiant - Independent on SundayA remakable young writer with a confident style - Sunday TelegraphMurray's well-researched account soon has us in the thick of the affair, and by telling it from Douglas's point of view, the author gives us an illuminating new angle - Observer