Author: Miranda Carter Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux ISBN: 9780374105310 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 590
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Chronicles the life of art historian Sir Anthony Blunt, exploring his private and public personas and how he used his connections within English high society to work as a Soviet spy until he was exposed by Margaret Thatcher in 1979.
Author: Barrie Penrose Publisher: Vintage ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 678
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Traces the life of Blunt, art historian and Russian spy, explains how he became involved in espionage and discusses his relationship to Kim Philby.
Author: Anthony Blunt Publisher: Pallas Athene ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 132
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This study provides an introduction to the glories of Roman baroque architecture and its three greatest exponents, Bernini, Borromini and Cortona.
Author: David Canadine Publisher: ISBN: 9780197266786 Category : Languages : en Pages : 130
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Through previously unpublished documents, this volume revisits the public furore 40 years ago when the British Academy chose not to expel from its Fellowship the eminent art historian, Anthony Blunt, who had been exposed as a former Soviet spy. David Cannadine portrays the main characters in this episode which rocked the academic establishment.
Author: Judith Thurman Publisher: Ballantine Books ISBN: 0307789810 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 636
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A scandalously talented stage performer, a practiced seductress of both men and women, and the flamboyant author of some of the greatest works of twentieth-century literature, Colette was our first true superstar. Now, in Judith Thurman's Secrets of the Flesh, Colette at last has a biography worthy of her dazzling reputation. Having spent her childhood in the shadow of an overpowering mother, Colette escaped at age twenty into a turbulent marriage with the sexy, unscrupulous Willy--a literary charlatan who took credit for her bestselling Claudine novels. Weary of Willy's sexual domination, Colette pursued an extremely public lesbian love affair with a niece of Napoleon's. At forty, she gave birth to a daughter who bored her, at forty-seven she seduced her teenage stepson, and in her seventies she flirted with the Nazi occupiers of Paris, even though her beloved third husband, a Jew, had been arrested by the Gestapo. And all the while, this incomparable woman poured forth a torrent of masterpieces, including Gigi, Sido, Cheri, and Break of Day. Judith Thurman, author of the National Book Award-winning biography of Isak Dinesen, portrays Colette as a thoroughly modern woman: frank in her desires, fierce in her passions, forever reinventing herself. Rich with delicious gossip and intimate revelations, shimmering with grace and intelligence, Secrets of the Flesh is one of the great biographies of our time. NOTE: This edition does not include a photo insert.
Author: John Costello Publisher: Grand Central Pub ISBN: 9780446357838 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 664
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Picking up where the million-copy bestselling Spycatcher left off, here is the first book to use newly declassified documents to expose the shocking double lives of the most notorious Soviet spies of the postwar era--the Cambridge spy ring.
Author: E. Michael Jones Publisher: Ignatius Press ISBN: 9780898704471 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 266
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In this groundbreaking new book, Jones shows how some of the major determining leaders in modern thought and culture have rationalized their own immoral behavior and projected it onto a universal canvas. The main thesis of this book is that, in the intellectual life, there are only two ultimate alternatives: either the thinker conforms desire to truth or he conforms truth to desire. In the last one hundred years, the western cultural elite embarked upon a project which entailed the reversal of the values of the intellectual life so that truth would be subjected to desire as the final criterion of intellectual value. In looking at recent biographies of such major moderns as Freud, Kinsey, Keynes, Margaret Mead, Picasso, and others, there is a remarkable similarity between their lives and thought. After becoming involved in sexual license early on, they invariably chose an ideology or art form which subordinated reality to the exigencies of their sexual misbehavior.
Author: Miranda Carter
Author: Barrie Penrose
Author: Anthony Blunt
Author: Anthony Blunt
Author: David Canadine
Author: Judith Thurman
Author: Andrew Boyle
Author: John Costello
Author: E. Michael Jones
Author: Anthony Blunt