To Fall Like Lucifer

• Date de parution : 06/10/2011
• Editeur : Biteback Publishing
• EAN : 9781849542470
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• Support : Livre numérique

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This is a story of a scandal and its victim, of a society that looked the other way, and of the few who remained loyal. On the night of the 18 November 1958, Ian Harvey, then a junior minister in Harold Macmillan';s Tory government, was arrested with a guardsman in St James';s Park.... Voir plus

This is a story of a scandal and its victim, of a society that looked the other way, and of the few who remained loyal. On the night of the 18 November 1958, Ian Harvey, then a junior minister in Harold Macmillan';s Tory government, was arrested with a guardsman in St James';s Park. Homosexuality would not be decriminalised until a decade later; the scandal that ensued prompted Harvey';s resignation from the government and Parliament, and brought a brilliant and promising career to a premature end. Originally published in 1971, Harvey';s startlingly honest account of his spectacular fall from grace is an extraordinary record of a time and its attitudes, as well as a poignant reflection on a life caught unexpectedly in scandal.