The Senecans: Four Men and Margaret Thatcher

Synopsis

A Year After The Death Of Margaret Thatcher, A Young Historian Arrives To Ask Peter Stothard, Editor Of The Time Literary Supplement And Former Editor Of The Times, Some Sharp Questions About His Memories Of The Thatcher Era. During The Interview The Offices From Where He Long Observed British Politics Are Being Systematically Flattened By Wrecking Balls. From The Dust And Destruction Of A Collapsing Newspaper Plant Emerge Portraits Of The Senecans, Four Of The Men Who Made The Thatcher Court So Different From That Of Her Successors. As Well As Love Of Britain's First Female Prime Minister They Shared Strange Latin Lessons In A Crumbling Riverside Bar. They Took Their Name From Their Taste For The Work Of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, A Pioneer Writer From Cordoba In Roman Spain, A Philosopher, Courtier And Acquirer Of Massive Wealth From The Age Of The Emperor Nero. Blending Memoir With Ancient And Modern Politics In The Manner Of His Acclaimed Diaries, Spartacus Road And Alexandria, Peter Stothard Sheds A Sideways Light On Margaret Thatcher's Believing Age, A Personal Picture Of Our Recent History. In Finally Identifying His Interviewer He Also Answers Questions About His Own Literary And Political Journey,--amazon.com. Escape To Cordoba -- Thatcher And Other Broken Promises -- Memoirs, Dogs And Lampposts -- A Believing Age -- Miss R Comes To Wapping -- Margaret Sideways -- A Tomb By The Thames -- Ronnie, Woodrow, Frank And David Hart -- Doomed Walls -- Ronnie Millar's Piano -- Remains Of Molotovs -- Seaside Balsa Palaces -- In The Falklands War -- Gotcha! -- Falling Glass -- D.h. Lawrence In The Miner's Strike -- How I Was Woodrowed -- Frank Johnson And The Penis On The Roof -- Four Ghosts Return -- Frank Finds The Skip -- Latin At The Old Rose -- Gorbachev And The Gunpowder Plot -- Maggie, Out, Out Out! -- When Wapping Dies -- Woodrow Wyatt In The Locarno Room -- Poems By A Prime Minister -- Cool Britannia -- Seneca's Last Bath -- Cordoba, Three Weeks On -- Deaths And Letters -- Who Miss R Was -- The Senecans' Farewells -- Escaped Parrots. Peter Stothard. Advance Reading Copy--cover.