by Sir Roy Strong (Author)
For over three decades Roy Sstrong has teased, tantalised, amused and sometimes enraged the British public, firstly in his capacity as the Director of two great cultural institutions, the National Portrait Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum, and more recently as a broadcaster, writer, garden expert and historian. Provocative on the issues of running a cash-starved museum, above all the diaries are a wonderfully entertaining chronicle of an age and some of its most memorable celebrities.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 478
Edition: New
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 02 Mar 1998
ISBN 10: 0753801213
ISBN 13: 9780753801215
Book Overview: * The most explosive diaries sice Alan Clark's. * An invaluable reference book for those who have an interest in the people who have made up Britain's establishment during the last quarter of the twentieth century' Alistair McAlpine, TIMES * 'It is Strong's respect for political correctness, his life-embracing punctilio, his preference for truths that are aesthetic rather than merely personal ... that make THE ROY STRONG DIARIES so much more important than a sequence of society jottings' TLS.