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100 1 $aMathews, Nieves.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no96040734
245 10 $aFrancis Bacon :$bthe history of a character assassination /$cNieves Mathews.
260 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $axiii, 592 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 561-581) and index.
520 $aBeyond his own country Francis Bacon is remembered as a great man, founder of modern science and philosophy, a just judge and a teacher of kings. In England and America, however, he is seen more as a cruel, corrupt and power-hungry politician. Which appraisal is correct? In this fascinating re-evaluation of one of Britain's most significant figures, Nieves Mathews examines the charges against Bacon and reveals how distorted facts can be recast as historical truths.
520 8 $aIn 1621 Bacon fell from power as Lord Chancellor, the highest position in the land. Charged with accepting bribes, he was convicted, fined, imprisoned and exiled from the Court. He died five years later, disgraced and deeply in debt.
520 8 $aIn this illuminating study of the Jacobean administration - a system which depended on corruption at every level - Nieves Mathews shows Bacon to have been among the least tainted of the King's officials, the scapegoat in a political conspiracy aimed at dislodging the royal favourite.
520 8 $aThe destruction of Bacon's reputation followed Thomas Babington Macaulay's eloquent 'Essay on Bacon', published in 1837. Macaulay's depiction of a cloven-hearted genius, at once the greatest and meanest of mankind, launched a tireless search among Bacon's biographers for evidence of malice and corruption. Now, with the benefit of recent scholarship, Nieves Mathews portrays a man both single-minded and fallible, with qualities and flaws.
520 8 $aHer penetrating reappraisal rescues Bacon from a long tradition of abuse and misrepresentation.
600 10 $aBacon, Francis,$d1561-1626.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79100235
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650 0 $aStatesmen$zGreat Britain$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112248
650 0 $aLawyers$zGreat Britain$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106858
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