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Article: AUTHORS DIG INTO BACON'S POLITICS.(DAILY BREAK)(Review)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- September 19, 1999
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Byline: EMILY MCCORMACK
HOSTAGE TO FORTUNE: The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
LISA JARDINE and ALAN STEWART
Hill and Wang. 637 pp. $35.
Hostage to Fortune'' could well be subtitled ``What Makes Frankie Run?'' In this exhaustive work, biographers Lisa Jardine and Alan Stewart present Francis Bacon, warts and all, with emphasis on the warts. Although Bacon is known today principally as a writer and ``the father of modern science,'' this biography highlights his long political career during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) and King James I (1603-1625).
Francis Bacon was the youngest son of Sir Nicholas ...