| I wanted to live abroad how to get a book review written Lipsey’s biography is far too good a book to be hagiography. It does nevertheless (and understandably) veer in the direction of hero worship. Like its predecessors, this biography shows a man who never made a major mistake, did not have a moral flaw, never veered from his high principles, was almost never driven by ego, never committed a vindictive act and rarely even made a memorably catty remark. (This last attribute can be something of a downer for readers of a lengthy biography; to leaven the unremittingly profound wisdom that is depicted, an occasional flash of genuine Churchill-style wit would have been welcome.)
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