Lacking, but with little competition on this topic to my knowledge
4 stars
In absolutely dire need of editing. Once past the first chapter or two, which I found quite engaging, it goes on for page after page, shifting between topics and moving back and forth in time with little to guide you as to the change in topic. Some of the details did not interest me, and I was left wondering at some of the details left out. Was very superficial on the actual mechanism by which democratic power was defeated by economic power in the 1900s, not doing much more than recording that it happened. Overall I felt it could have done a far better job of chronicling the history of democracy in the UK, but despite these criticisms I have never before read a book on the history of democracy in the UK, so I was pleased with it.