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Incorrigible But Inimitable

Philip Hensher BOSWELL'S PRESUMPTUOUS TASK by Adam Sisman Hamish Hamilton, £17.99, pp. 392 B oswell's Life of Johnson is the best biography in the world, of course, but even now......

Strange And Boring

Christopher Caldwell AL GORE: A USER'S MANUAL by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair Verso, £15, pp. 284 A l Gore likes to aim oxymorons at the morons he conceives the......