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Cardinals, directors, dissidents, dons, judges, novelists, philosophers, prime ministers, scientists, world statesmen. . . Throughout his long and distinguished career, Sir Anthony Kenny has encountered some of the most notable and influential leaders of the post-war world.
In these brilliantly vivid vignettes Kenny offers telling and often unexpected insights into the achievements, flaws and foibles of sixty public figures - past and present - each of whom has contributed in decisive ways to our political, spiritual and cultural heritage.
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Table of contents
- Introduction
- 1 Three priests: Alexander Jones, Jack Kennedy, Herbert McCabe
- 2 Three cardinals: William Theodore Heard, John Carmel Heenan, Cormac Murphy-O’Connor
- 3 Three Anglicans: Austin Farrer, Henry Chadwick, Richard Harries
- 4 Three Oxford dons: Christopher Cox, Russell Meiggs, Richard Cobb
- 5 Three heads of house: Christopher Hill, Isaiah Berlin, Daphne Park
- 6 Three benefactors: Bill Coolidge, Irwin Miller, David Astor
- 7 Three businessmen: Warwick Fairfax, Robert Maxwell, John Templeton
- 8 Three Oxford philosophers: Gilbert Ryle, Richard Hare, Philippa Foot
- 9 Three Wittgensteinians: Elizabeth Anscombe, Peter Geach, Georg Henrik von Wright
- 10 Three overseas philosophers: Willard Van Orman Quine, Ernst Tugendhat, Jacques Derrida
- 11 Three prime ministers: Harold Macmillan, Ted Heath, Margaret Thatcher
- 12 Three British statesmen: Denis Healey, Roy Jenkins, Chris Patten
- 13 Three privy councillors: Peter Brooke, Boris Johnson, Yvette Cooper
- 14 Three heads of state: King Olav V, Francesco Cossiga, Bill Clinton
- 15 Three judges: Jim Kilbrandon, Tom Bingham, Laurie Ackermann
- 16 Three dissidents: Ivan Supek, Mihailo Marković, Julius Tomin
- 17 Three Irish leaders: Charles Haughey, Garret FitzGerald, Mary Robinson
- 18 Three South African leaders: Desmond Tutu, Mamphela Ramphele, Nelson Mandela
- 19 Three novelists: Graham Greene, Iris Murdoch, David Lodge
- 20 Three scientists: Noam Chomsky, Richard Dawkins, Denis Noble
- Plates