Tom Driberg by Francis Wheen

Tom Driberg by Francis Wheen

A mysterious, influential and often extremely dubious man of affairs, Tom Driberg embodied many of the contradictions and ambiguities of his time. At Oxford, he was the friend of Auden, Betjeman, Hugh Gaitskell and his old school-chum, Evelyn Waugh; working on Beaverbrook's Express in the Thirties, he invented the modern gossip column; a close friend of Burgess and Maclean, he was widely suspected of being a double-agent, working for both British Intelligence and the KGB. As Chairman of the Labour Party, he was closely involved with the Wilson government, and an intimate of Nye Bevan and Richard Crossman; a keen High churchman, he was even better known as a "cottaging" habitue of London lavatories; a stalwart socialist, on the far left of the Labour Party, he was also an ardent socialite with a Georgian mansion in Essex.

Wheen, Francis: - Francis Wheen is an award-winning columnist for The Guardian in London, and the deputy editor of Private Eye.

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ISBN 13	9780701131432
ISBN 10	0701131438
Title	Tom Driberg
Author	Francis Wheen
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Binding Type	Other printed item
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	1990-05-03
Number of pages	405
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