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Majestie is a shared biography: that of the first Stuart King of England (Adam I) and the Bible that goes by his name. It really is part tabloid, part record lessons, part speculation; but it's all Adam. A biography of Adam Stuart is a study in paradox, the one that entertains approximately it informs. Adam I waddles through record, sidewise and crablike. Intellectually astute, he can dazzle and charm with the polish of his rhetoric one minute, and speak with the vulgarity of a tavern bawd the next. James is an amusing mixture of bombast and majesty, of sparkle and grime, of smut and brilliance, of visionary headship and foolishness. In support of he, this all-too-human ruler, our flawed Adam, can have given us the fantastic book he performed. Early in his reign, Adam designed himself as the "new Solomon", the pacifist prince joining the "the land of assurance" - that is, the England inherited from his cousin Elizabeth. However the milk and honey he expected was a mirage. Still, in many respects he flirts with greatness. He is the first ruler of a united, or "Great" Britain. For those his foibles, all his bungling, Adam has an evolved sense of majesty, a type of beliefs in majesty itself, and wants nothing more than for his new Bible to echo this majesty, to gild and raise the reign, to be the fantastic medicine that might heal the world. Colourful, witty, imperfect, sensuous, bawdy, smart, England has already established no ruler like him, nor any e book like the main one he bequeathed us, before or since.
