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...Hochschild is at no loss for characters in this story; one of the earliest we meet is Sir Henry Morton Stanley, of "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" fame. Stanley is hired by King Leopold II of Belgium--according to one of Leopold's best PR men, Henry Shelton Sanford--in order to create "a chain of posts or hospices, both hospitable and scientific, which should serve as means of information and aid to travelers...and ultimately, by their humanizing influences, to secure the abolition of the traffic in slaves." Stanley was the first to betray this rhetoric in service to Leopold...
...ANDREW MORTON Di's biographer nabs another book on troubled femme whose leader-lover doesn't love...
...definitely in favor of it. I'mpro-technology," said Warren Professor of AmericanLegal History Morton J. Horwitz, who teachesHistorical Studies B-61: "The Warren Court andthe Pursuit of Justice...
Monica Lewinsky is ready to tell all, says the New York Post. The paper reports that the "Sexgate siren" has signed a seven-figure deal with St. Martin's Press to publish a book in February. Her collaborator: Andrew Morton, best-selling royal biographer, whose Princess Diana book was a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic (and is now being turned into a movie by "The Lion in Winter" producer Martin Poll). In addition, says the Post, it looks as though Monica will be sitting down to talk with ABC's Barbara Walters sometime soon...
...juiciest bits published so far go some way toward toppling the image created by Andrew Morton's Diana: Her True Story, which depicted a young Princess distraught over her husband's infidelity. Junor claims that Diana, not Charles, was the first to break the marriage vows--by having an affair with her personal security officer, Barry Mannakee, who was killed in a 1987 motorcycle accident. When Diana learned of Mannakee's death, Junor writes, "in her despair she slashed herself, and the dress she wore in Cannes had to be adjusted to hide the damage." While Morton maintained that Diana...