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The Texas Chainsaw Massacrer

Anthony Howard MEANS OF ASCENT: THE YEARS OF LYNDON JOHNSON by Robert A. Caro Bodley Head, f20, pp. 506 T he thesis of this book can be stated quite simply: Lyndon Baines......

Babbled Of Green Fields

Michael Bentley THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH ARISTOCRACY by David Cannadine Yale, f19.95, pp. 813 I n the last two decades of Queen Victor- ia's reign the British......