Vain, Childish, Reckless, a Liar and a Lecher - but a Truly Great Diarist ; Book of the Week
Daily Mail › September 18, 2009
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ALAN CLARK: THE BIOGRAPHY BY ION TREWIN (Weidenfeld & Nicolson Pounds 25)
AT FIRST, you find yourself wondering: what on earth do we need a biography of Alan Clark for? I mean, what did he actually do? He wrote a couple of good history books, made a pretty good boggins of a political career, committed a lot of adultery and inherited a castle.See the full content of this document
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Vain, Childish, Reckless, a Liar and a Lecher - but a Truly Great Diarist ; Book of the Week
The answer is that we need this book as a companion volume to his Diaries. As his biographer Ion Trewin writes, Clark's real interest to posterity will not be what he did, but what he wrote. This gives you a good sense of - so to speak - where he was writing it from.
Clark was vain, childish, reckless, petulant, mendacious, self- serving, callous, lecherous, slapdash, attention-seeking, cowardly and dishonourable. ...See the full content of this document
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