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Throughout this book, Brady traces the maturation of a man who always hungered for things that were only partially available to him. The two most profound influences were his relationships with his natural father Lord Auchinleck and with his adopted father Samuel Johnson. Lord Auchinleck was "upright, hardworking, shrewd, practical and totally unimaginative." To take a ridiculous modern example, his relationship with James was akin to that of Oliver Barrett III and his conservative, wealthy father in Eric Segal's Love Story. Boswell felt the same mixture of perverse joy in defying Lord Auchinleck that Oliver feels in resisting...
DIED. Claude Auchinleck, 96, British field marshal who in 1941 opened the North African campaign that led to the defeat of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel; in Marrakesh, Morocco. After winning the first battle of El Alamein, Auchinleck was relieved of his command for refusing to counterattack Rommel west of Cairo...
...Afrika Korps has punched to within 15 miles of Alexandria. The Germans are now only a Heil away from British-ruled Egypt and the Suez Canal, the Allies' strategic lifeline to the Middle East and Asia. Though outnumbered and outgunned by General Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, the German commander consistently outmaneuvers the Brits, even to the point of seizing the key bastion of Tobruk. For Rommel has a secret weapon: Alex Wolff, a.k.a. Achmed Rahmha, German-born, Berlin-trained spy, who early in life had been adopted by an Arab stepfather...
...Just how the clap affected his writing is not readily apparent. More comprehensible are the roots of Boswell's reckless social life, specifically his Scots Calvinist origin with its severe strictures against wine and wenching. For Boswell, the embodiment of this authority was his father, the eighth Lord Auchinleck, a straitlaced, unaffectionate parent and a distinguished jurist who wore his courtroom robes around the house. The case history is not unfamiliar: son seeks the attention of the remote, puritanical father by challenging his values; one thing leads to another; guilt accrues; activities detrimental to health and welfare are pursued...
...after Isham had fallen on hard times, and Pottle took charge. Boswell's London Journal, full of ribald details of night life along the Thames, was an international bestseller in 1950, but volumes since then have subsided to a series of scholarly thuds. Volume X, The Laird of Auchinleck, which traces Boswell's life from the summer of 1778 to the fall of 1782, is scheduled to be published in September. (Three more volumes are yet to come before Boswell's death in 1795.) Even after a half-century of work, Pottle remains enthralled by his period...