Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty. A Statistical Study in History and Psychology
Author: first_name: Frederick Adams
last_name: Woods
Language: English
Year: 1906

Frederick Adams Woods examined the biographical records and family trees of the great dynasties of Europe, judging and comparing their moral standards and intellectual aptitude to their reputation as rulers. The summarised family histories are produced after a painstaking search including portrait galleries, family lineage, comparisons of reputation, and the origin of allegations of madness and moral bankruptcy, all collated within a single volume. - Summary by Leon Harvey