Ferdinand Mount

Ferdinand Mount’s The New Few: A Very British Oligarchy will be published in May. Full Circle: How the Classical World Came Back to Us is out in paperback.

In the LRB Archive:

• A Life without a Jolt: M.R. James · 26 January 2012

  • Collected Ghost Stories by M.R. James

• Too Obviously Cleverer: Harold Macmillan · 8 September 2011

  • Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan by D.R. Thorpe
  • The Macmillan Diaries Vol. II: Prime Minister and After 1957-66 edited by Peter Catterall

• Get off your knees: An Atheist in the House · 30 June 2011

  • Dare to Stand Alone: The Story of Charles Bradlaugh, Atheist and Republican by Bryan Niblett

• Plonking: Edward Heath · 22 July 2010

  • Edward Heath by Philip Ziegler

• Living with Monsters: PMs v. the Media · 22 April 2010

  • Where Power Lies: Prime Ministers v. the Media by Lance Price

• With What Joy We Write of the New Russian Government: Arthur Ransome · 24 September 2009

  • The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome by Roland Chambers

• Adored Gazelle: Cherubino at Number Ten · 20 March 2008

  • Balfour: The Last Grandee by R.J.Q. Adams

• ‘Derek, please, not so fast’: Derek Jackson · 7 February 2008

  • As I Was Going to St Ives: A Life of Derek Jackson by Simon Courtauld

• Fraud Squad: Imposters · 2 August 2007

  • The Tichborne Claimant: A Victorian Sensation by Rohan McWilliam
  • A Romanov Fantasy: Life at the Court of Anna Anderson by Frances Welch
  • The Lost Prince: The Survival of Richard of York by David Baldwin

• The Doctrine of Unripe Time: the Fifties · 16 November 2006

  • Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties by Peter Hennessy

• Double-Barrelled Dolts: Mosley’s Lost Deposit · 6 July 2006

  • Blackshirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism by Stephen Dorril
  • Hurrah for the Blackshirts! Fascists and Fascism between the Wars by Martin Pugh

• Truffles for Potatoes: Little Rosebery · 22 September 2005

  • Rosebery: Statesman in Turmoil by Leo McKinstry

• Masses and Classes: Gladstone · 17 February 2005

  • The Mind of Gladstone: Religion, Homer and Politics by David Bebbington

• Lord Cardigan’s Cherry Pants: The benefits of the Crimean War · 20 May 2004

  • The Crimean War: The Truth behind the Myth by Clive Ponting

• Trouble down there: Tea with Sassoon · 7 August 2003

  • Siegfried Sassoon: The Making of a War Poet 1886-1918 by Jean Moorcroft Wilson
  • Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches 1918-67 by Jean Moorcroft Wilson
  • Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil by Peter Stansky

• Minnesota Fates · 12 October 1989

  • We are still married by Garrison Keillor

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