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A Better Statesman Than Politician

John Simpson ALL IN A LIFE by Garret FitzGerald Macmillan, 125, pp.686 I f England gave America its language and Germany gave it its food, its politics were donated by Ireland.......

Agents And Patience

Patrick Skene Catling HARLOT'S GHOST by Norman Mailer Michael Joseph, £15.99, pp. 1,122 T his is not, after all, The Great American Novel — but it is certainly A Very Big......