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"When Anthony Blunt died in 1983 be was a man about whom almost anything could be - and was - said. He was accused of everything from causing the death of Allied agents during the war to conspiring to suppress the reputation of British art; from blackmailing the Royal Family to paedophilia. He was a blank screen on which fantasy and delusion were projected.". "Anthony Blunt: His Lives reveals the man behind the myths and rumours: aesthete, communist, homosexual, spy. As Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures and Director of the Courtauld Institute, Blunt's position as a stellar member of the Establishment had seemed utterly assured. But, in 1979, Margaret Thatcher exposed him as a former Soviet spy, and Blunt was stripped of his knighthood and became a figure of universal opprobrium."--BOOK JACKET.
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Anthony Blunt, Miranda Carter
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- Released
- 2001
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- Title
- Anthony Blunt
- Subtitle
- His Lives
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Miranda Carter
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Released
- 2001
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 592
- ISBN10
- 0374105316
- ISBN13
- 9780374105310
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, History, True Stories, Biographies, Political Science & Politics, Politics, Russia, Art History & Criticism, History of Art, Espionage, Politicians' Biographies
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- "When Anthony Blunt died in 1983 be was a man about whom almost anything could be - and was - said. He was accused of everything from causing the death of Allied agents during the war to conspiring to suppress the reputation of British art; from blackmailing the Royal Family to paedophilia. He was a blank screen on which fantasy and delusion were projected.". "Anthony Blunt: His Lives reveals the man behind the myths and rumours: aesthete, communist, homosexual, spy. As Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures and Director of the Courtauld Institute, Blunt's position as a stellar member of the Establishment had seemed utterly assured. But, in 1979, Margaret Thatcher exposed him as a former Soviet spy, and Blunt was stripped of his knighthood and became a figure of universal opprobrium."--BOOK JACKET.