A collection of fourteen essays covering subjects such as: Isaac Foot (the author's father), William Hazlitt, Benjamin Disraeli, Beaverbrook, Bonar Thompson; Bertrand Russell; H N Brailsford; Ignazio Silone; Vicky (the cartoonist); Randolph Churchill; Thomas Paine; Daniel Defoe; Sarah, The Duchess of Marlborough, & Jonathan Swift.