Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One 1944-1979 - Couverture rigide

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Rose, Kenneth

 
9781474601542: Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One 1944-1979
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ISBN 10 : 1474601545 ISBN 13 : 9781474601542
Editeur : W&N, 2018

Synopsis

The wry and amusing journals of royal biographer and Sunday Telegraph journalist Kenneth Rose, one of the most astute observers of the Establishment in mid 20th-century Britain.

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À propos des auteurs

Kenneth Rose was born in 1924. He was educated at Repton and was a scholar at New College, Oxford. He served in the Welsh Guards during the Second World War and was subsequently a schoolmaster at Eton, before working for the British Council in Rome and Naples. He joined the DAILY TELEGRAPH in 1951 and worked on the Peterborough column before starting the long-running Albany at Large column in the SUNDAY TELEGRAPH in 1961. He published prize-winning biographies of Lord Curzon, King George V and Victor Rothschild, as well as acclaimed studies of the Victorian Prime Minister Lord Salisbury and his family in THE LATER CECILS. His journals, spanning 1944 to his death in 2014, are to be published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in two volumes.

D. R. Thorpe was born in 1943 and educated at Fettes College and Selwyn College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a regular contributor to the OXFORD DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY. He has been an Archives Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge and the Sir Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford. Since 1998 he has been based at Brasenose College, Oxford as a senior member. He has published five acclaimed biographical works: THE UNCROWNED PRIME MINISTERS: A STUDY OF SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN, LORD CURZON AND RAB BUTLER; the official lives of Selwyn Lloyd and Sir Alec Douglas-Home; and EDEN: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ANTHONY EDEN, FIRST EARL OF AVON, 1897-1977. His biography of Harold Macmillan, SUPERMAC: THE LIFE OF HAROLD MACMILLAN won the biennial Marsh Biography Award, 2009-10. He knew Kenneth Rose for forty years and was appointed by him to edit his journals.

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Éditeur
W&N
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1474601545
ISBN 13 
9781474601542
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
640
Éditeur
Thorpe Richard
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9781474601559: Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One 1944-1979

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ISBN 10 :  1474601553 ISBN 13 :  9781474601559
Editeur : W&N, 2022
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