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A Liar, A Cheat And A Fantasist

Dennis O'Keeffe THE RED PRUSSIAN: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF KARL MARX by Leopold Schwarzschild Pickwick Books, £16.00 W hat intellectual status should we accord Karl Marx today?......

Books

Most of us like Ike Edward Hamilton IKE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER by Piers Brendon Secker & Warburg, £12.95 EISENHOWER: AT WAR 1943-1945 by David Eisenhower......