Book review: Eminent parliamentarians: the speaker’s lectures

"Eminent Parliamentarians: The Speaker’s Lectures. Philip Norton" (ed.). Biteback. October 2012. --- In 2011, John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons, instigated a series of public lectures in which current parliamentarians reassessed the careers and characters of earlier parliamentary giants. This book brings together those lectures, and will surely be of interest to political historians and Westminster researchers. Reviewed by Paul Wingrove