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Books

All the conspirators Richard Cobb The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution Albert Goodwin (Hutchinson £12) This is a very......

Nelson Touch

Nicholas von Hoffman R ockefeller of New York Robert Connery an Gerald Gerald Benjamin (Cornell £10.50) T he Mayor of New York, Ed Koch, fired his C hief medical examiner the......

Brain Power

Anthony Storr The Natural History of the Mind Gordon Raftray Taylor (Secker E6.95) Mr Taylor's new book will be of immense interest not only to the educated general public at......