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...rule the U.S., has also produced remarkable exceptions like Eleanor Roosevelt, the subject of one of the finest pieces Vidal has ever written. He turns what is ostensibly a book review (of Joseph Lash's Eleanor and Franklin) into one of the best thumbnail biographies since Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians. To Vidal, F.D.R.'s widow is the finest example of the Christian Puritan aristocrat, dedicated to improving the lives of the masses. In recalling her funeral, he concludes with a passage that out of context seems embarrassingly sentimental but actually reveals a great deal about this...
...about the same time, a diary entry reads, "I watch. Vanessa. Children. Failure. Failure, failure. (The wave rises)." She became again more unstable, and around her tragedy recurred. Vanessa's son Julian went to fight in Spain and was killed. Strachey died. When the World War II bombings began, both Virginia's and Vanessa's London houses were among the first to be demolished. In 1941 Virginia began to hear the hideous voices again...
With Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keynes and Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Forster was a part of the elite Bloomsbury Group, where the world of intellect perched to watch the world of men stagger and fall. Everyone called him Morgan, and of those that knew him, he was loved by most...
...LYTTON STRACHEY, by Michael Holroyd. The madly eccentric life and odd times of the author of Eminent Victorians, overwhelmingly documented in 1,229 improbably fascinating pages...
...LYTTON STRACHEY, by Michael Holroyd. The author of Eminent Victorians was undoubtedly the oddest duck on the Bloomsbury pond, a fact amply documented on nearly every one of the 1,229 fascinating pages of this two-volume biography...