Churchill’s Jackal
Kenneth O. Morgan, 24 January 1980
Brendan Bracken
by Charles Edward Lysaght.
Allen Lane, 372 pp., £10, September 1980,0 7139 0969 2 Show More
by Charles Edward Lysaght.
Allen Lane, 372 pp., £10, September 1980,
“... It’s just that he isn’t a real person. He isn’t a human being at all.’ This verdict on Rex Mottram in Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited conveys something of the despairing bafflement of contemporaries towards the real-life right-wing politician on whom Mottram was modelled – Brendan Bracken ... ”