OLD SCHOOL TIES.
Research by Angela Devlin. Pp. viii+472, patterned endpapers, indices; med. 8vo; bottom fore-corner of upper board slightly bruised; dust wrapper, backstrip a trifle faded, the front flap vertically creased; pages slightly browned, with occasional yellow highlighting of text; Sinclair-Stevenson, London, 1992. First edition. *'How have school affected the careers of the famous and notorious? In 1991, 3,000 well-known people were set questionnaires about their secondary schooldays in the UK. As well as anecdoting crucial events in the early lives of the famous, Old School Ties concentrates on the influence of schools and teachers on the thought processes and career choices of top people in law, education, politics, public service, business and other broad career categories' [wrapper blurb]. Item #156158
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