Making Aristocracy Work - Adonis, Andrew (, Public Policy Correspondent of the Financial Times^R, and a former Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford)

A study of the political role and activities of the peerage, both inside and outside Parliament, the late 19th and early 20th century. Andrew Adonis reassesses the strengths and weaknesses of the House of Lords, and shows how its members were able to justify themselves by their work.