A Gambling Man: Charles II's Restoration Game by Jenny Uglow

A Gambling Man: Charles II's Restoration Game



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A Gambling Man: Charles II's Restoration Game Jenny Uglow
Page: 592
ISBN: 9781429964227
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The Restoration was a decade of experimentation: from the founding of the Royal Society for investigating the sciences to the startling role of credit and risk; from the shocking licentiousness of the court to failed attempts at religious tolerance. Negotiating all these, Charles II, the “slippery sovereign,” laid odds and took chances, dissembling and manipulating his followers. The theaters may have been restored, but the king himself was the supreme actor. Yet while his grandeur, his court, and his colorful sex life were on display, his true intentions lay hidden. Charles II was thirty when he crossed the ... MORE EBOOKS:







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