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Book SynopsisSimon Heffer was born in 1960. He read English at Cambridge and took a PhD in modern history at that university. His previous books include:
Moral Desperado: A Life of Thomas Carlyle,
Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell,
Power and Place: The Political Consequences of King Edward VII,
Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinvention of England,
Vaughan Williams,
Strictly English,
A Short History of Power,
Simply English and
High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain. In a thirty-year career in Fleet Street, he has held senior editorial positions on
The Daily Telegraph and
The Spectator, and is now a columnist for
The Daily Telegraph and
The Sunday Telegraph.