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Room At The Top

Peter Conrad Howard Hughes: The Hidden Years James Phelan (Collins 0.75) In our reduced and democratic age, the only heroes are nonentities: the moronic genius Warhol; Nixon,......

The Best Of Everything

Christopher Hill General Monck Maurice Ashley (Jonathan Cape £6.95) Dr Ashley is a skilled and experienced biographer, nearly all of whose two dozen books deal with......