Astute, witty, and mercifully brief, "Eminent Edwardians" is a portrait of an age. Piers Brendon reveals the essence of the Edwardian era in biographical sketches of four of its most famous figures: Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister and inspirer of the Balfour Declaration on Palestine; Emmeline Pankhurst, dare-devil Suffragette and castrating threat to the lords of humankind; Robert Baden-Powell, war idol and eternal Boy Scout; and grandiose newspaper baron Lord Alfred Northcliffe, who unleashed on an unsuspecting world a mass popular press."