Anthony Blunt : His Lives

by Miranda Carter

• ISBN13: 9780312421465
• ISBN10: 031242146X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2003-03-19
• Publisher: Picador

Summary

This brilliant psychological examination of the infamous Cambridge art-historian-turned-spy reveals the multiple masks worn by the Cold War's most notorious traitor. From young member of the Bloomsbury circle to left-wing intellectual, from closeted homosexual ascending to the Establishment to object of public denunciation by Margaret Thatcher, the arc of Blunt's life is at once a deeply nuanced account of fifty years in the British power elite and an astonishing history of one of the century's greatest deceits.

Author Biography

Miranda Carter was educated at St Paul’s Girls’ School and Exeter College, Oxford. She worked as a publisher and journalist. She lives in London with her husband and son. This is her first book.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. v
List of Illustrations	p. xi
Prologue	p. xiii
Son	p. 1
Schoolboy	p. 18
Undergraduate	p. 45
Angry Young Man	p. 77
Don	p. 101
Fellow-Traveller	p. 131
Recruit	p. 153
Talent Spotter	p. 181
Art Historian	p. 209
Soldier	p. 241
Spy	p. 273
Success	p. 303
Accessory	p. 337
Director	p. 358
Private Man	p. 380
Writer	p. 408
Penitent Impenitent	p. 436
Traitor	p. 465
References	p. 501
Bibliography and Sources	p. 556
Index	p. 565
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