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In a series of historical character studies, this book reconsiders the
position of modern statesmanship since the Stuart Rebellion. Taking the
accepted facts of the latest historians, but using evidence to which
they rarely give its due weight, the author maintains that many of the
"orthodox" opinions are not logical deductions from the data. The book
is a charge that since the days of Lord Burghley statesmanship has too
often degenerated into politics. It is an attempt to estimate some
typical public men in the light of a colder reason, which shows, for
example, that Oliver Cromwell was a founder of modern Plutocracy, while
Benjamin Disraeli was the defender of Democracy.