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...officer of the Grenadier Guards, came home to marry Britain's reigning beauty, Lady Diana Manners, over the objections of her father, the Duke of Rutland. Entering Parliament in 1924, Duff Cooper turned out a brace of authoritative biographies (Talleyrand, Haig), became Secretary for War under Conservative Stanley Baldwin (1935-37), was assailed as a "disgraceful scaremonger" for urging rearmament against Hitler. Appointed First Lord of the Admiralty by Neville Chamberlain, he resigned in protest against the 1938 Munich agreement with the Axis, told his colleagues: "I have ruined, perhaps, my political career. But that is a little matter...
...first novels. Ovid Williams Pierce in The Plantation and Jefferson Young in A Good Man wrote stories about life in the South that were distinguished by grace, dignity and good writing. George Lanning joined their company with This Happy Rural Seat, a mature story about middle-aged Americans. James Baldwin became a new Negro writer to watch with Go Tell It on the Mountain, a powerfully lyrical novel about religious fervor and human isolation in Harlem...
...Chicago and beyond, he pulled more than his weight in serving on charity drives, civic bodies and educational boards (he is now an overseer of Harvard University). In 1938, he delivered a Harvard series of lectures on labor strife and civil liberties, in company with veteran Civil Libertarian Roger Baldwin. When Harry Truman seized the U.S. steel industry in 1952, Randall, although his company is only the eighth largest steel producer, was chosen as the industry's spokesman. "This evil deed," he said in a blistering radio-TV speech, "without precedent in American history, discharges a political debt...
...Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin. An intensely written novel of life in Harlem (TIME...
...Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin. An intensely written novel of life in Harlem (TIME...