The Insatiable Earl: A Life of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich

No historical figure of the eighteenth-century England has been more grossly misrepresented than the inventor of our favorite fast food. The stereo type is well known: an unscrupulous man of pleasure whose mistress, a courtesan, was murdered on the steps of the Admiralty, inside which her lover was carelessly mismanaging the War of American Independence.

For it is the special pleasure of this absorbing book that through it is written by one of England's foremost naval historians, it is not i...