The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt Vol 3: From Major to Blair

by Sarah Curtis (Author)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $4.88

  The third and final volume of Wyatt's scandalous journals In this final volume of Woodrow Wyatt's journals, running from the April 1992 election until three months before he died in December 1997, Wyatt is in his late seventies, but his access to those in power is undiminished. John Major, Norman Lamont and Rupert Murdoch play leading roles as Wyatt writes his columns in The Times and the News of the World, amuses the Queen Mother on the race course, lobbies for his causes and his friends, and, of course, continues to drink the finest wines and smoke the largest cigars. A unique mixture of politics, society and gossipy indiscretion.

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  Paperback
  2000

  $3.25

  Margaret Thatcher's fall from power is the dramatic core of this second volume of Woodrow Wyatt's sensational memoirs, covering the years 1989 until the election in 1992. Through Wyatt's indignant eyes, we see the overthrow of the woman he believes to be the best possible prime minister for Britain, presenting a completely new perspective on those momentous events and the atmosphere at the time.

  Woodrow Wyatt continues to comment with total frankness on the foibles of his friends, watches them fall in and out of love, wines and dines politicians, royalty, journalists, aristocrats - like the lord he is and the millionaire he is not. In these journals he reveals himself nakedly, sharing his beliefs and achievements, his self-doubt and failures, with an unusual zest and honesty.

  'A fascinating insight into the old claret-stained establishment' Sunday Express

  'There is not a page which fails to excite goggle-eyed enjoyment... An exquisitely naughty candour ... places him closer to Pepys than to anyone else' Spectator