Showing posts with label Andrew Roberts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Andrew Roberts. Show all posts

Friday, March 23, 2007

Andrew Roberts: 'Name Dropper-in-Chief'!

Andrew Roberts's Spectator Diary this week is a veritable lesson in name dropping - as he himself admits. He relates his book tour of the United States two weeks ago and in the space of 900 words he drops this list of the great and the good...
Tom Wolfe, Norman Podhoretz, Jane Wrightsman, Barbara Walters, Robert
Silvers, Paul Le Clerc, Henry Kissinger, Harry Evans, Tina Brown, Jon Meacham,
Fareed Zakaria, Joe Klein, Adam Gopnik, Nancy Kissinger, Michael Bloomberg,
George Will, Peggy Noonan, Roger Hertog, Rupert Murdoch, John Bolton, Irwin
Stelzer, Irving Kristol, Charles Murray, Bill Walton, George W Bush, Karl Rove,
Josh Bolten, Nicolas Sarkozy, Celia Sarkozy, Allan Mallinson, Charles Moore
& Simon Heffer.

Phew! Of course the only reason I highlight this is that I was at one of the events he mentions but for some reason he omitted to mention my name in his piece. Bitter? Moi? Shurely shome mishtake... Just to show you how much I admire Andrew I shall encourage you to buy his superb book HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES 1900-2000 HERE!