Perilous Question

Perilous Question

By Antonia Fraser
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“Fraser writes energetically about the political wrangling, finding both humor and humanity in the struggle.”

New Yorker

Perilous Question features an eventful, violent often overlooked period of British history. On June 7, 1832, William IV reluctantly assented to pass the Great Reform Bill, under the double threat of the creation of sixty new peers in the house of lords and of revolution throughout the country. This led to a total change in the way Britain was governed, a riotous two-year revolution that Antonia Fraser brings dramatically to life. Perilous Question is an exceptional work of narrative history—one that truly casts a distant mirror on events today.