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Article: Books: Undermining Eden Anthony Eden's reputation still stands or falls on Suez, as the latest biography demonstrates, says Andrew Roberts
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
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- November 3, 1996
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Anthony Eden:
A Life and Reputation
by David Dutton
Arnold, pounds 25
FEW POSTHUMOUS political reputations have oscillated so violently
as that of Anthony Eden. The League of Nations man, the
anti-appeasement martyr, the wartime foreign secretary who
restrained Churchill, the long-suffering heir-apparent, the
neo-colonialist Suez adventurer - every aspect of the popular
conception of Eden has been minutely picked over in this, his 10th,
biography. With yet another on the way, from Alec Douglas-Home's
biographer D. R. Thorpe, Anthony Eden is fast becoming the
political publishing equivalent of Marilyn Monroe or Lawrence of
Arabia.
The present book, by the veteran biographer and senior history ...