The Biographers' Club Event-Author Simon Heffer on Henry Chips Channon
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- The Biographers’ Club is delighted to welcome the historian and journalist Simon Heffer for a Zoom discussion about the most entertaining and revelatory political diaries of the 20th century.
About the book
Born in Chicago in 1897, ‘Chips’ Channon settled in England after the Great War, married into the immensely wealthy Guinness family, and served as Conservative MP for Southend-on-Sea from 1935 until his death in 1958. His career was unremarkable. His diaries are quite the opposite. Elegant, gossipy and bitchy by turns, they are the unfettered observations of a man who went everywhere and who knew everybody.
An abridged and censored version of the diaries came out in 1967. Simon Heffer is the first editor to be able to draw on the full text. Simon Heffer is in conversation with his longtime publisher at Hutchinson, Nigel Wilcockson.
Excellent interview on Chips Channon's compelling diaries!
Thank you so very much for the upload of this conversation. I finished the reading of the Diaries yesterday. Thank you so very, very much. glorious research by Mr. Heffer for this book!
I only read bits of Chips, knew he was in the centre of everything, but I only bought 2nd hand, mainly opshop finds, for the last 30 years, because I run an animal rescue - but I am mourning I am not likely to find them before my old life is over.
The 20 years before that, I bought from antiquarian bookshops - and built up a nice history/biography section.
But now I honestly have more books to read than years to read them. But I still keep adding, still keep making a new stack in front of the old stack of books that need to be read ASAP...
Halfway through volume 2 at the moment. This is fascinating.
Excellent interview! I am thoroughly looking forward to this particular epic read - utterly fascinating! NB. Any tentative date for the publication of Volume 3 yet?
I started with the second volume as this era is most interesting to me. Channon doesn't hold back and one can understand why the first editions were heavily redacted.
25:00 abdication crisis
Thank you for the note. Yt has asked me if I want abdication crisis translated to English.
Sums up yt, I guess.
Chip's contumely for Americans holds up.