Jeremy was acquitted of involvement but his career was in ruins.Michael Bloch's magisterial biography is not just a brilliant retelling of this amazing story ten years in the making, it is also the definitive character study of one of the most fascinating figures in post-war British politics. Scott's incessant boasts about their 'affair' became increasingly embarrassing, and eventually led to a bizarre murder plot to shut him up for good. Jeremy was acquitted of involvement but his career was in ruins.Michael Bloch's magisterial biography is not just a brilliant retelling of this amazing story ten years in the making, it is also the definitive character study of one of the most fascinating figures in post-war British politics. But as his star steadily rose so his nemesis drew ever nearer: a time-bomb in the form of Norman Scott, a homosexual wastrel and sometime male model with whom Jeremy had formed an ill-advised relationship in the early 1960s. When he became leader of the Liberal Party in 1967 at the age of just thirty-seven, he seemed destined for truly great things. O元288809W Page_number_confidence 93.96 Pages 658 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220128204437 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 824 Scandate 20220122233309 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780316856850 Sent_to_scribe Tts_version 4.'A revealing, insightful and gripping biography of one of the most extraordinary people ever to lead a British political party' ObserverThe story of Jeremy Thorpe's rapid rise and spectacular fall from grace is one of the most remarkable in British politics. And in Michael Bloch it has found a worthy chronicler - Daniel Finkelstein The Times Michael Bloch tells the tale of Jeremy Thorpes extraordinary life with panache and precision. Urn:lcp:jeremythorpe0000bloc:epub:6efaf8b7-2e28-459a-b5e5-b6bd16c3578c Foldoutcount 0 Identifier jeremythorpe0000bloc Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s27zpkcbjg9 Invoice 1652 Isbn 0316856851ĩ780316856850 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9939 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-2000074 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:49:48 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA40336810 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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