Pengarang: Michelle Phillips

Sokongan
This is not a conventional biography. I rely not on documents, but almost exclusively on recorded interviews and memories of Michael Foot constituting a raw record of conversations not smoothed over by a biographical narrative. This is a book about process. I show how I went about obtaining my story, which ostensibly concerned Jill Craigie, who married Michael Foot in 1949. Michael entered Jill’s life in 1945. He was such an important source for this biography that, inevitably, I learned as much about him as about her. Readers come to biographies to learn about the subject, not the biographer. Yet the biographer is, in a sense, half the story. Or, as Paul Murray Kendall put it in “The Art of Biography”, every biography is an autobiography. So “A Private Life of Michael Foot” is an effort to show how a biographer struggles to tell his own story, even as family and friends cherish differing narratives about that same subject. My wish is to highlight these clashes of perception rather than reconcile their discrepancies.There is value, too, in showing the rough edges of biography, the stops and starts, in an unapologetic fashion. I wonder if there has ever been a biography that has treated a British political and literary figure in quite so revealing a fashion.




6 Ebooks by Michelle Phillips

Chris Strodder: The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool
The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool profiles over 250 of the most intriguing personalities of the 1960s. The men and women covered in the book include a wide range of celebrities—from well-known superst …
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Inggeris
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€17.99
Harvey Kubernik & Kenneth Kubernik: A Perfect Haze
The first major rock music festival and the precursor to Woodstock, the Monterey International Pop Festival was an unprecedented gathering of pop, soul, jazz, and folk artists who took the stage one …
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Inggeris
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€29.99
Rebecca Sutherns: Nimble
None of us can predict with 100% accuracy what will happen when we’re in front of a group of people. We need to be prepared, but also prepared to adapt. Whether you are a presenter, facilitator, teac …
EPUB
Inggeris
DRM
€7.49
Chris Strodder: Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool
The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool profiles over 250 of the most intriguing personalities of the 1960s. The men and women covered in the book include a wide range of celebritiesfrom well-known supersta …
PDF
Inggeris
DRM
€28.24
Michelle Phillips & Matthew Sergeant: Music and Time
How does music manifest through time and, simultaneously, how does time manifest through music? For the experimental psychologist, the experience of time during music listening or performance is some …
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Inggeris
DRM
€30.99
Michelle Phillips & Matthew Sergeant: Music and Time
How does music manifest through time and, simultaneously, how does time manifest through music?For the experimental psychologist, the experience of time during music listening or performance is somet …
PDF
Inggeris
DRM
€25.79