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"By words the mind is winged."
- Aristophanes
(450 BC - 385 BC)
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ZIN Product Number: 10500786
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 Format: Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Incorporated
ISBN: 1842121979
Release Date: Jan 3, 2001
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This celebrated hoax was published anonymously in 1926 and became an immediate best-seller. It was quickly the subject of a famous court case at which the author (revealed to be Hesketh Pearson) was acquitted. 'Among the diplomats of Europe my name is a household word' notes the author. 'I say this in no boastful spirit. It just happens to be so'. And so, indeed, it seems. For here are intimate recollections of the author's friends and acquaintances in high social and diplomatic circles right across Europe during the first decades of the 20th century - from Lord Northcliffe, 'The Napoleon of Fleet Street' to Warriors (Kitchener, Marshal Joffre); Empire Builders (Rhodes, Chamberlain); Three Caesars (Kaiser Wilhelm, Tsar Nicholas, Emperor Francis Joseph); Two Despots (Lenin, Mussolini) to Kings, Scribblers, Statesmen, and assorted other luminaries. So many of the great, and not so great, decisions that would shape the twentieth century took place behind closed doors. This diary is a whispering gallery of the shadowy manoeuvres, the expedient alliances, the posturings, the quiet coups, and of course the indiscretions, blunders and pre-occupations of all of the dominant personalities of the day.
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"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely."
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|  | | | | Introduction | vii | | Preface | xxvii | | I. | The Napoleon of Fleet Street (Lord Northcliffe) | 1 | | II. | Warriors (Lord Kitchener, Lord Roberts, Sir Redvers Buller, Sir John French, Marshal Joffre, Townsend of Kut) | 12 | | III. | Empire-Builders (Cecil Rhodes, Joseph Chamberlain) | 29 | | IV. | The Peacemaker (King Edward VII) | 45 | | V. | Three Caesars (Kaiser Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicholas II, Emperor Francis Joseph) | 58 | | VI. | Two Despots (Lenin, Mussolini) | 76 | | VII. | Crowns and Coronets (King George V, King Alfonso XIII, Queen Alexandra, Queen Mary, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the ex-Crown Prince of Germany) | 90 | | VIII. | Scribblers (H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain) | 113 | | IX. | The Crisis (Lord Reading, Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Asquith, Mr. Walter Cunliffe, Sir Edward Holden) | 140 | | X. | Statesmen at Home (1. Mr. Asquith, Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Winston Churchill, Sir Edward Grey. 2. Lord Curzon, Mr. Arthur Balfour, Lord Robert Cecil) | 151 | | XI. | Olla Podrida (Lord Riddell, Horatio Bottomley, Father Bernard Vaughan, President Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Ramsay MacDonald, Philip Snowden, Sidney Webb) | 173 | | XII. | The Soap King (Lord Leverhulme) | 203 | | XIII. | Glimpses (Lady Astor, Margot Asquith, The Countess of Warwick, Max Beerbohm, Walter H. Page, James McNeill Whistler, Augustus John) | 216 |
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