{"product_id":"9780711232402","title":"My Dear Hugh: Letters from Richard Cobb to Hugh Trevor-Roper and others","description":"\u003cp\u003eRichard Cobb was one of the most distinguished British historians of the twentieth century. A professor at Oxford, a multiple prize-winner, author of numerous books and innumerable essays and reviews, he was proudest of all to be described as a Parisian. He was unconventional, anarchic and almost impossibly erudite.\u003cbr\u003eSomehow he managed in the course of a life of apparently unremitting grandeur to write letters. They were scratchy, iconoclastic, funny, indiscreet, vivid, fluent, and occasionally brilliant set-pieces of descriptive or historical reporting. The sight of one of his ill-typed missives in a blue Basildon Bond envelope was always a promise of pleasure, and usually of instruction, frequently an invitation to a feast of scurrilous gossip, and an excuse to put off day-to-day concerns for a while. He wrote about politicians, the royal family, fellow academics and journalists, and, of course, mutual friends.\u003cbr\u003e The complete letters would fill many volumes, but here is a selection of the best, made by Tim Heald, who was taught by Cobb at university, and corresponded with him intermittently for the next thirty years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lincoln, Frances Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015027278064,"sku":"9780711232402","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780711232402_p0.jpg?v=1763623141","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780711232402","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}