Stephen Koss

Stephen Koss author of a biography of Asquith, teaches history at Columbia. The second volume of his Rise and Fall of the Political Press in Britain was published in March.

Letter

More Margot

5 July 1984

Stephen Koss writes: Although Michael and Eleanor Brock go far to clarify matters, they neglect to mention one relevant detail. Before dispatching my review from New York, I invested in a telephone call to Mr Brock, whom I rightly presumed to be well placed to know any recent developments with regard to the Margot Asquith diaries. Of course, transatlantic connections are sometimes unclear, and either...

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Neal Ascherson, 21 February 1985

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