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Fleeting Fame

Nicolas Walter William Godwin Peter H. Marshall (Yale University Press £14.95) W illiam Godwin achieved fame and fortune with two books — An En- quiry Concerning Political......

Eternal Russia

Timothy Garton Ash Putting Up with the Russians, 1947-1984 Edward Crankshaw (Macmillan £12.95) T his collection of Edward Crankshaw's essays and reviews is a deep breath of......