A VERY PRIVATE CELEBRITY: the nine lives of John Freeman.
Pp. xvi+368, frontispiece portrait, plus 8 plates, one full page illustration, text map, notes, index'; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown; The Robson Press, London, 2015. First edition. *'From advertising executive to war hero to MP tipped to be Prime Minister, Freeman then changed direction to become a seminal television interviewer and editor of the New Statesman. He subsequently remodelled himself yet again to become, in turn, an ambassador, a TV mogul, a university professor and, finally, in retirement, a well-known bowls player in south London' [wrapper blurb]. Item #176518
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