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“... as the traditional illiterate half-coma of popular culture. Elvis Presley is merely the focus for Albert Goldman’s contempt – a contempt for a kind of regional sub-man or mass personality devised by himself. Goldman is palpably scared by the vitality of non-intellectual life among humankind, above all in his own ...”

“... memoirist. Scenes from it have already been itemised and painfully rehearsed, most colourfully by Albert Goldman. His 1982 Elvis mixed diatribe on the subject of American society with a famously unfriendly portrait of the singer as a pervert and fiend. Although unmentioned, Goldman influences the villain of ...”

“... Petworth Lampitt is an Edwardian belletristic biographer who has done a stylish life of Prince Albert. He is hero-worshipped by Julian’s clergyman uncle Roy, the whole of whose life has been an act of fawning homage to the Lampitt family. He is a mine of biographical information about the Lampitts, and knows secrets that he would no more think of ...”

“... weren’t enough. Blow out the skylight!It was the verbal jam sessions with fellow spritzers – Albert Goldman (a Columbia professor who would court infamy with his scabrous biographies of Elvis Presley and John Lennon), the theatre critic Robert Brustein, and others – that helped crack open the shell that released Alex Portnoy into the urban ...”

“... crusade of postwar repression and deportation. He took personal credit for the expulsion of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, adding (in what was then perhaps only a tic rather than a full-fledged disorder) that Emma Goldman’s private love-letters made ‘spicy reading’. Always there was the connection – sometimes ...”

“... muffled and mysterious.’ The South Kensington Museum is being converted into the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Prosper reflects on this for nearly a page: ‘It ate up his life, but he took pleasure in it.’ Then a new paragraph announces a change of direction: ‘His children delighted and worried him. Julian seemed to have settled for the life of a ...”

“... elevation, from presidency of the Commission to chairman of the international division of Goldman Sachs, was a natural sequel to these reforms. But the alteration of outlooks and mores in the Commission also has to be understood in terms of its surroundings. There are now around 30,000 registered lobbyists in Brussels. That is more than double the ...”