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Glover received his academic training in ethics, spending thirty years at the University of Oxford before taking his present position at King’s College. He has written several books in the subject, including Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century...
Sanders then threatens to leave if he is not given the chairmanship, at which point the plot veers substantially from reality—Winthrop is murdered by a love-struck graduate student seduced by a visiting (and mass-murdering) Oxford professor. Although Sanders is initially a suspect, he is later cleared...
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During his career he authored or co-authored over 500 publications, was an associate editor of the New England Journal of Medicine and co-edited the Oxford Textbook of Surgery, published...
Pakenham's obsession dates to his childhood in Oxford, where he kept watch for German parachutists during World War II from a perch in his favorite horse chestnut. But he didn't take trees seriously until 1961, when he inherited an estate--Tullynally Castle in Ireland--that encompasses several hundred acres of stately 200-year-old oaks and beeches. (Pakenham could have been the eighth Earl of Longford, but he doesn't use the title. His father was a famous politician; his mother is the biographer Elizabeth Longford; the writer Antonia Fraser is his sister...