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...beginning of the end of the trouble appears to be at hand, and assessments of the emotional losses have begun to be tallied. Perhaps the most eloquent statement on the damage to the national psyche came last week from the 90-year-old Earl of Stockton, who as Harold Macmillan was Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963. Bent with age and leaning on a silver-topped cane, he rose from a red leather bench in the House of Lords to deliver his maiden speech to a hushed, expectant house. Referring to the strike, he said, "It breaks my heart...
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...David MacMillan...
When the official biography of John Maynard Keynes appeared in 1951, an acquaintance remarked, "This is the biography of Lord Keynes. Someone else must write the life of Maynard." That someone is Charles Hession, author of John Maynard Keynes (Macmillan; 400 pages; $22.95). His ambitious treatment draws on previously unavailable material to portray the private life of the man who forever changed the nature of capitalism by asserting that deficit spending could cure business slumps. The unique angle and breadth of Keynes' vision, Hession argues, were rooted in a combination of intuition, poetry and bisexuality...
...Macmillan's argument that CBS's actions were intended to discourage publication of the book, Wallace responds, "Everyone says this will increase sales." He is probably right. But given Kowet's own admissions about his failing to double-check some of the facts, questions about the accuracy of many of the scenes he describes are difficult to dismiss...