A self-made martyr; review.

From: The Mail on Sunday (London, England) | Date: August 24, 2003| Author: P.d.james | Copyright information

Byline: P.D.JAMES

P. D. James

Lord Longford: The Outcasts' Outcast by Peter Stanford OUP [pounds sterling]20 . [pounds sterling]16 (0870 165 0870)

At first sight, the title of this biography - The Outcasts' Outcast - seems perversely inappropriate. After all, Lord Longford was a man with an impressive record of privilege and achievement: the inheritor of an earldom, a respected social reformer, for 33 years a Labour frontbench spokesman, a successf...

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