Bernard Wasserstein is the author of Britain and the Jews of Europe 1939-1945 (OUP/Institute of Jewish Affairs 1979, Oxford Paperbacks 1988), and also of The British in Palestine (Basil Blackwell 1990), and The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln (Yale University Press 1988, Penguin 1989)

`It is much to Wasserstein's credit that he has brought Samuel to life in these pages, and told with utmost readibility the story of a man whose career was intimately bound up with the creative days of Liberalism before 1914 ... the great strength of this book is that it weaves together the author's extremely wide-ranging archival trawlings and delvings into a seamless and fascinating narrative.'Martin Gilbert, The Times.

• The making of a meliorist; the new Liberalism; darkest England and darkest Africa; the children's charter; a sermon in crude melodrama; the infant Samuel goes to war; Liberalism at war; Eastern melodies; high commissioner; pacifier; organizer; decemvir; Liberal leader; viva voce.

Bernard Wasserstein is the author of Britain and the Jews of Europe 1939-1945 (OUP/Institute of Jewish Affairs 1979, Oxford Paperbacks 1988), and also of The British in Palestine (Basil Blackwell 1990), and The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln (Yale University Press 1988, Penguin 1989)

`It is much to Wasserstein's credit that he has brought Samuel to life in these pages, and told with utmost readibility the story of a man whose career was intimately bound up with the creative days of Liberalism before 1914 ... the great strength of this book is that it weaves together the author's extremely wide-ranging archival trawlings and delvings into a seamless and fascinating narrative.'Martin Gilbert, The Times.

• The making of a meliorist; the new Liberalism; darkest England and darkest Africa; the children's charter; a sermon in crude melodrama; the infant Samuel goes to war; Liberalism at war; Eastern melodies; high commissioner; pacifier; organizer; decemvir; Liberal leader; viva voce.