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There Shone One Woman

Douglas Johnson M ADAME DE S TAËL by Maria Fairweather Constable & Robinson, £25, pp. 522, ISBN 1841198161 ✆ £23 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 I n January 1798 Talleyrand gave......

The Decline Of The West?

Johann Hari T HE W HOLE E QUATION : A H ISTORY OF H OLLYWOOD by David Thomson Little, Brown, £22.50, pp. 433, ISBN 0316848603 ✆ £20.50 (plus £2.25 p&p) 0870 800 4848 D avid......