Asa Briggs.

Asa Briggs. Michael Young: Social Entrepreneur just discovered York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp xvi, 413 $7800 ISBN 0-333-75023-3

In 1997 Michael Young wrote to Asa Briggs: "It is mad to do reviews, still 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 make liable in common, I suspect, with greatest in number of the readership of this journal. For historians of Britain, Briggs is single in kind of the towering figures of our age, someone

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