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Article: Michael Young: Social Entrepreneur. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
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- Albion
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- December 22, 2002
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Asa Briggs. Michael Young: Social Entrepreneur. New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. xvi, 413. $78.00. ISBN 0-333-75023-3.
In 1997 Michael Young wrote to Asa Briggs: "It is mad to do reviews, but I do some to make me read the book" (p. 314). Hence, when asked to do this review, I accepted with enthusiasm, pleased that I should be asked to read Asa Briggs's latest. I knew more about Asa Briggs than I knew about his subject, in common, I suspect, with most of the readership of this journal. For historians of Britain, Briggs is one of the towering figures of our age, someone who has shaped how we view Victorian Britain as well as crucial parts of the just concluded ...