The Common Touch
Paul Foot, 10 November 1994
Hanson: A Biography
by Alex Brummer and Roger Cowe.
Fourth Estate, 336 pp., £20, September 1994,1 85702 189 4 Show More
by Alex Brummer and Roger Cowe.
Fourth Estate, 336 pp., £20, September 1994,
“... the Pennines to Manchester on packhorses – pulsed through the veins of her great-grandsons,’ Alex Brummer and Roger Cowe write without a trace of irony. One of these was Robert Hanson, the great James’s father, through whose veins the entrepreneurial spirit pulsed so fiercely that he stored other people’s furniture in a warehouse next to a ... ”