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How To Fail

Max Egremont The Rockefellers Peter Collier and David Horowitz (Jonathan Cape £7.95) l} Rockefellers are one of the few families u niversally identified with great wealth and.......

Flummery

Peter Ackroyd Yeats Frank Tuohy (Macmillan £6.95) Biography is a substitute in this country for critical thought. If it is done at all, it should be done quickly. Unfortunately,......