![]() ![]() Everywhere there are consequences to pay, both for the victor and the vanquished: Moldy old Queen Elizabeth doesn’t stand a chance against Mary, Queen of Scots, on the popularity front (but that didn’t keep the redhead’s melon attached to her neck). The author knows how to write a lively narrative, swiftly paced but always clearly directed. ![]() Otherwise, the fighting would have been over before the first bell and if there is one thing that links these feuds together it is longevity. The squabbles in these pages were for potatoes both big and small-the divine right of kings, say, or the Hatfield theft of a McCoy hog-yet they had staying power because they were balanced fights: The contestants fought at the same weight. Arguments that got murderously out of hand, sometimes literally so, zestfully captured here by Evans ( Great Feuds in Science, not reviewed). ![]()
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