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WARNER, Peter

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First edition, a review copy, with Viking review slip and advertising insert. George is chosen by his conglomerate as the editor of its latest acquisition, but "it soon becomes clear the unfashionable magazine represents a lifestyle at least a decade out of date, leaving George to turn it around...only things are not so simple" dust jacket . vi , 215 pages. dust jacket.. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards.

Lifestyle

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Viking Adult

Greens, commons, and clayland colonization: The origins and development of green-side settlement in East Suffolk (Occasional papers / University of Leicester, Department of English Local History)

History

Europe

Leicester University Press

Suffolk, the county of the Sutton Hoo and Mildenhall treasures and the core of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia, has a particularly resonant ancient and medieval past. This copiously illustrated book covers the history and archaeology of the county from the time of the first farmers to the coming of the Normans. Peter Warner gives details of recent excavations at sites of international significance such as Sutton Hoo, West Stow and Brandon. He compares the spectacular hoard of treasure discovered recently at Hoxne with Suffolk's other great Roman find, the Mildenhall Treasure. He also explores Ipswich, England's earliest Anglo-Saxon town and Bury St Edmunds, its best planned Norman town. Much of our knowledge of the early history of Suffolk stems from Domesday Book, and the author assesses its evidence in the light of recent research.

The Origins of Suffolk (Origins of the Shire)

Manchester University Press

`A story of rising poverty, enclosure, accusations of rape, and the brutal confrontation of the landed and the dispossessed'. What began as a dispute over grazing rights in the village of Walberswick in Suffolk in April 1644, led to the death of a man and the subsequent hanging of three others. The events of this month are pieced together through primary source material and the events are used as a medium for discussing life in the seventeenth century community. A great story and a great book.

Bloody Marsh. A Seventeenth-Century Village in Crisis

Windgather Press

The fictitious memoir of an unlikely foreign spy planted in Washington, D.C., in the years after World War II Recruited by a foreign power in postwar Paris and sent to Washington, Winston Bates is without training or talent. He might be a walking definition of the anti-spy. Yet he makes his way onto the staff of the powerful Senator Richard Russell, head of the Armed Services Committee. From that perch, Bates has extensive and revealing contacts with the Dulles brothers, Richard Bissell, Richard Helms, Lyndon Johnson, Joe Alsop, Walter Lippman, Roy Cohn, and even Ollie North to name but a few of the historical players in the American experience Winston befriends―and haplessly betrays for a quarter century.
A comedy of manners set within the circles of power and information, Peter Warner's The Mole is a witty social history of Washington in the latter half of the twentieth century that presents the question: How much damage can be done by the wrong person in the right place at the right time?
Written as Winston's memoir, The Mole details the American Century from an angle definitely off center. From Suez, the U-2 Crash, the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, and Watergate, the novel is richly and factually detailed, marvelously convincing, and offers the reader a slightly subversive character searching for identity and meaning (as well as his elusive handler) in a heady time during one of history's most defining eras.

The Mole: The Cold War Memoir of Winston Bates: A Novel

United States

Thomas Dunne Books

Winston Bates is without training or talent, the very definition of anti-spy. Yet this failed poet in postwar Paris is recruited by a foreign power and sent undercover to Washington. Somehow he makes his way onto the staff of the powerful Senator Richard Russell, head of the Armed Services Committee, and from that perch gains extensive and revealing contacts with the crucial players in the American political game. The Dulles brothers, Richard Bissell, Richard Helms, Lyndon Johnson, Joe Alsop, Walter Lippmann, Roy Cohn, Ollie North—Winston befriends them all and haplessly betrays them for a quarter century.A comedy of manners burrowed within circles of power and information, The Mole is a witty social history of Washington in the latter half of the twentieth century that asks the question: How much damage can be done by the wrong person in the right place at the right time?Written as Winston’s memoir, The Mole details postwar America from an angle uniquely off-center. From the Suez Crisis to the U-2 Crash, from the Bay of Pigs to Vietnam to Watergate, the novel is richly and factually conceived, marvelously convincing, and offers the listener a slightly subversive character searching for identity and meaning in a heady time during one of history’s most defining eras.

The Mole: The Cold War Memoir of Winston Bates

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