PRAISE FOR THE BOOK: ""Dr. Chamberlain brings to her study . . . a mastery of the considerable bulk of historical literature . . . on Palmerston, in addition to her own research expertise as the biographer of Lord Aberdeen. The result is a clear, concise and readable account of Palmerston's career. . . . It is a model of what a book of this kind should be, and it will be welcomed by those who teach--or study--this area of history."" --Times Higher Education Supplement