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"It is absolutely marvelous stuff, and exquisitely written wonderfully indiscreet." -Gore Vidal Tom Driberg $11.95 ISBN 0-8128-2176-9 Ruling Passions TOM DRIBERG In this candid and deliciously gossipy mem- oir, Britain's well-known journalist and MP Labour recalls in beautifully drawn vignettes his encounters with the flamboy- ant members of the artistic, social, and political elite of our time. A talented writer with a taste for the low life, Tom Driberg had a knack for making friends. The names he drops have — a gratifyingly rich ring Waugh, the Sit- wells, Auden, Nijinsky, Khrushchev, Hitch- — cock and his revelations are intriguingly offbeat. Moreover, he shows a genius for being with the right people, at the right place, at the right time. Because of his keen eye for the illumi- nating detail, he is able to bring to life Spain after the Civil War; Chicago on Pearl Harbor Day; the coronation of Pope Pius XII; Buchenwald just after its libera- tion; a twenty-three-day wartime trip to the U.S. on a Norwegian cargo ship dodg- ing German subs; a visit to newly released prisoners of war in Singapore with Mount- batten; America greeting Lindbergh in New York. He recounts with equal care his sexual encounters; a quarrel among his eccentric (Continued on back flap) D•igitized by the Internet Archive 2014 in https://archive.org/details/rulingpassionsOOdrib RULING PASSIONS By the same author colonnade the best of both worlds beaverbrook: a study in power and frustration guy burgess: a portrait with background the mystery of moral re-armament: a study of frank buchman and his movement swaff: the life and times of hannen swaffer RULING PASSIONS Tom by Driberg STEIN AND DAY/Publishers/New York — Firstpublished in the United States of America in 1978 Copyright © 1977 byDavid Higham © Copyright 1977 Robert Graves for the letter on pp. 64-65 Copyright© 1977 EricWalterWhiteforHomagetoBeethovenonpp. 69- AU rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Stein and Day/Publishers/Scarborough House, Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. 10510 Library ofCongress Catalogingin PublicationData Driberg, Tom, Baron Bradwell. Rulingpassions. Autobiography. Includes index. 1. Driberg, Tom, Baron Bradwell. 2. England Biography. I. Title CT788.D785A37 941.082'092'4 [B] 76-49058 ISBN 0-8128-2176-9
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