These are eighteen mini biographies of people as diverse as Stanley Baldwin, Princess Diana, Imelda Marcus, Oswald Mosley and Mary Whitehouse written by a 90 year old after 70 years as a journalist who, along the way, was also an M P, cabinet minister and editor of a national newspaper. Deedes is well equipped to do the job with perception, sympathy and the authority of one who was there and knew them all. Fascinating stuff.
(James Baker - bwl 25 August 2004 ) |
