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ROY HATTERSLEY was a Minister at the Board of Trade in Mr Callaghan 's administration ,,f 1976-1979. Since 1983 he has been Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. He is also the author of two novels, the most recent one, In That Quiet Earth, was published by Macrnillan.

FROM THE PULPIT CONSPIRACY 1 AUBERON WAUGH 4 FRANCIS WH EEN Smear! Wilson and the Secret State Stephen

Dorril and Robin Ramsay

6 BARRY KYLE Cold Warrior: ]ames]esus Angleton, The CIA 's

Master Spy Hunter Tom Mangold 7 GEOFFREY ELLIOT The Junk Bond Revolution Fenton Bailey 8 ANTHONY LEE Silent Coup: The R emoval of Richard Nixon

Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin

RAYMOND CARR, Warden of St Anthony's College, Oxford , from 1968-1986, is one of Britain's foremost experts on the Spanish Civil War and on fox hunting . He was a fellow of All Souls 1946-1953, but now hunts in Devon.

NATASHA FAIRWEATHER was one of Britain's leading literary agents, with Curtis Brown, before joining her husband, a foreign correspondent for The Times, in Israel.

KEITH WATERHOUSE was appointed a Commander of the British Empire in the Birthday Honours.

BRIAN MASTERS publishes his own biography of E F Benson this month, from Chatto. This most important work will be reviewed in our September issue.

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BIOGRAPHY

OPPRESSION

10 AN DREW BI LLEN Swearing: A Social History of Foul

Language, Oaths and Profanity Geoffrey Hughes 11 J uuAN LoosE High Risk (Edd) Amy Scholder & Ira

Silverberg 12 S J TA YLOR The Man Who Was Mark Twain : Images and

Ideologies Guy Cardwell 14 CLAIRE MONK The Love Quest: A Sexual Odyssey Anne

Cumming 15 D EBBIE SHEWELL You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again

Julia Phillips

16 CouN WI LSON Alexander Trocchi: The Making of the Monster

Andrew Murray Scott Inv isible Insurrection of A Million Minds: A Trocchi R eader (Ed ) Andrew Murray Scott

18 FRANK McLYNN B enedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor Willard

Sterne Randall 19 JWM THOMPSON Sailor King: The L ife of King William IV

Tom Pocock 20 EowARD KEMP Columbus Felipe Fernandez-Armesto 22 RosEMARY STOYLE Notable or Notorious? A Gallery of

Parisians Gordon White 23 ToM SHONE Woody Allen Eric Lax 25 R oY H ATTERSLEY Kill The Messenger Bernard lngham 26 RAYMOND CARR The Spanish Civil War Sheilagh M Ellwood 27 KATE SAUNDERS When You and Your Mother Can't Be

Friends Victoria Secunda 28 SEAN GABB Hitler's Children Gerald Posner 29 J o HN K EMP Fatal Half Measures: The Culture of Democracy In the Soviet Union Yevgeny Yevtushenko 30 DAVID CHrrr R esistance and Control in Pakistan Akbar S

Ahmed

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Designer: STEPHEN PARKER Publisher: NArM ATTALLAH Founding Editor: DR ANNE SMITH Cover illustration by William Rushton

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