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Books

The insiders' outsider Nicholas von Hoffman Walter Lippmann and the American Century Ronald Steel (Bodley Head pp. 688, £8.95) Walter Lippmann was such a good newsPaper......

Fleet Of Feet

Christopher Logue Ezra Pound and His World Peter Ackroyd (Thames and Hudson pp. 128, £5.95) Pound was the most vital of the inhumanist poets. Foxed by his passion for aesthetic......

Holy Crank

Nicolas Walter Edward Carpenter 1844-1929 Chushichi Tsuzuki (Cambridge University Press pp. 237, £15) If Edward Carpenter hadn't existed, he would have had to be invented, but......