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Reviews: Red Queen: The Authorized biography of Barbara Castle: True grit of a formidable campaigner
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RED QUEEN: THE AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF BARBARA CASTLE
Anne Perkins
Macmillan GBP 20
WISELY, Anne Perkins faces the unpalatable fact in her
introduction. Authorised biographies carry "a certain stigma, a sense
that the writer is under an obligation to the subject". But there is
no doubt that, in Red Queen - recklessly subtitled The Authorized
Biography of Barbara Castle as if that is a commendation - the author
has avoided or cunningly disguised the suspected bias. The result is
a first-rate political biography and a portrait of a historically
important figure which is far better than ...
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