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Kenneth Young (1)

Autore di Churchill and Beaverbrook

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Good enough for what it is - a biography written in 1970 when Douglas-Home was not only still alive but also just beginning his second term as Foreign Secretary. Kenneth Young was a partisan journalist - an editor of the Yorkshire Post who did not bother to hide his Tory sympathies. This isn't one of those magisterial Prime Ministerial biographies where the author has access to private or public papers of importance. If you are looking for a "balanced" and "historical" account of Douglas-Home and his career, this isn't it. But in Young's favor it is certainly true that he had a penchant for good effective writing - he knows how to "turn a phrase."… (altro)
 
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yooperprof | May 28, 2015 |

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Opere
6
Utenti
35
Popolarità
#405,584
Voto
½ 3.5
Recensioni
1
ISBN
30