When the pistol goes off
Peter Clarke, 17 August 1989
Arnold Toynbee: A Life
by William McNeill.
Oxford, 346 pp., £16.95, July 1989,0 19 505863 1 Show More
by William McNeill.
Oxford, 346 pp., £16.95, July 1989,
“... currently selling 1,500,000 copies. For the editors, as they put it, ‘the story of Historian Toynbee and his work in progress was an unusual challenge and opportunity.’ The response was ‘overwhelming’, and not only from ‘professors of history, philosophy and anthropology, from deans of American colleges and universities, heads of public and ... ”