Scandalous Leadership

An exploration of the moral blemishes that have dogged the leaders of Great Britain and the United States.Before Britain had a prime minister – and before they invented America – the dictator Oliver Cromwell urged the artist Lely to paint him ‘warts and all’. This book deals with some of the ‘all’, but is mostly about the warts, the moral blemishes that have dogged the leaders of two of the greate...