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Welcome to a book with legs podcast. I'm Cole Smead, CEO and portfolio manager here at Smead Capital Management. At our firm, we are readers, and we believe in the power of books to help

shaped informed investors. In this podcast, we speak to great authors about their writings. The late

great Charlie Munger prescribed

using multiple mental models and analysis. We analyze their work through the lens of business,

markets, and people. Thanks for joining me today in this episode. We will look back at another

era of influencers who were royal, famous among other aristocrats, and could be wealthy too.

Adrian Tenniswood is joining us to discuss his recently released book, The Power and the Glory,

Life in the English Country House Before the Great War.

His work focuses on Britain and small piece of continental Europe in the late 19th century,

up to about 1914.

To give you a little background on Adrian, he's the author of many books, I think as many as 18, on English history,

including what I noted was Warren Madness in 17th century England, which was shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize. He is a professor

of British cultural history at the University of Buckingham and an adjunct professor at Maynooth

University. He was also, I will note, awarded an officer of the Order of the British Empire by

Queen Elizabeth II. He is joining us today from West Ireland. Adrian, thanks for joining

me today. Thank you very much. It's great to be with you. Yeah, this is, we're kind of talking about

before why, you know, I kind of fell in love with reading your book and reading the story. It does

obviously have some Americans, so I'm kind of selfish when I get to go

through it. But we like studying wealthy people. It's one of the things we ask, you know, what

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