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...HAROLD NICOLSON: THE LATER YEARS, 1945-1962, VOL. Ill OF DIARIES AND LETTERS. Edited by Nigel Nicolson. 448 pages. Atheneum...
When Sir Harold Nicolson died last May at 81, enfeebled by age and prolonged illness, he was only vaguely aware that the first two volumes of his diaries and letters had brought him a quality of fame that had eluded him all his life. Perhaps the knowledge that he was being hailed as a Pepys to his age and peers might have struck him as an odd and final irony. "To be a good diarist," he once observed, "one must have a little snouty sneaky mind...
Nevertheless, Nicolson's perceptive daily jottings about places he visited and people he met assure him a position in British letters that he never achieved with his 34 books of history, biography, fiction, essays and travelogues. This final, posthumous volume, edited by his son Nigel, offers a beguilingly human account of the tremendous social changes that swept Britain so painfully after World...
...Horse. Though he tried, Nicolson, the aristocratic son of an English lord, never quite came to terms with either men or movements that he found wholly alien to his upbringing. Partly because he convinced himself that he was at least a "cerebral" socialist, but mostly because he had been half-promised a peerage, he bolted the Conservative Party in 1948 and stood for Parliament as a Labor candidate in working-class North Croydon...
Died. Sir Harold Nicolson, 81, Britain's brilliant historian (The Congress of Vienna) and diarist, who in Volumes I (1930-39) and II (1939-45) of Diaries and Letters gave a penetrating analysis of the Establishment; in Kent, England. Husband of the late novelist Vita Sackville-West and son of a Brit ish lord, Nicolson moved with ease through the rooms at the top, recording with candor and wit the intrigues and personalities of Europe's destiny shapers. He was devoted to Churchill, disdainful of De Gaulle, yet found nearly everyone fascinating. "Only one person in a thousand...