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The Cambridge Apostles : a history of Cambridge University's élite intellectual secret society
Title
The Cambridge Apostles : a history of Cambridge University's élite intellectual secret society / Richard Deacon.
ISBN
0374118205
9780374118204
Edition
First American edition.
Publication
New York : Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1986.
Copyright Notice Date
©1985
Physical Description
x, 214 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Zab L489 Zz986D: Dust jacket. Manuscript annotations and highlighing by David Leavitt. From the David Leavitt Papers.
Summary
This is the story of the Apostles - Cambridge University's elite intellectual secret society - from its modest beginning in the 1820s to the revelation in recent decades that two of the most notorious "moles" for the Soviet secret service - Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt - were Apostles.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 08, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-199) and index.
Contents
Conversazione
The lotus-eaters
Insurrection
The curse on Henry Roby
The wish to learn
The higher sodomy
God and the devil
The Keynesian influence
After Armageddon
Investigative Marxism
Another Spanish adventure
Approaching war again
Apostles at war
The fitful fifties
The restless sixties
In pursuit of truth.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Annotations - 20th century.
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United States New York (State) New York.
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