The High Life
Too-often regarded as dull compilations of dusty facts, biographies are rarely bestsellers, Amanda Eyre Ward writes. But Amanda Foreman's Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire reads like a racy novel, complete with enough rocky relationships, torrid trysts, and illegitimate childbirths to keep Jerry Springer in business for weeks.
"..."Biographers," Foreman notes in the introduction to Georgiana, "are notorious for falling in love with their subjects." Too often..."
