Article: Books: Undermining Eden Anthony Eden's reputation still stands or falls on Suez, as the latest biography demonstrates, says Andrew Roberts

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 ...

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