Read Online An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines - Free Book Online

restaurant staff were held hostage for 122 hours. Rondel, who was acquitted at trial as the result of jury-nobbling, became a secondhand car dealer, grew the beard of a shaman, and liked to stand on his head.
    Hundreds of words would be needed if I was sufficiently to thank Jenny Davenport and Christopher Phipps, who together incited and honed my writing of this book. Nothing would be possible without them: Phipps, additionally, has compiled an index for which every discriminating reader will be grateful.
    Kensington & Le Meygris, May 2012

Also by Richard Davenport-Hines
    Dudley Docker
    Sex, Death and Punishment
    The Macmillans
    Glaxo
    Vice
    Auden
    Gothic
    The Pursuit of Oblivion
    A Night at the Majestic
    Ettie, The Intimate Life of Lady Desborough
    Titanic Lives
    (Edited) Hugh Trevor-Roper’s Letters From Oxford
    (Edited) Hugh Trevor-Roper’s Wartime Journals

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    First published in Great Britain by Harper Press in 2013
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