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Menzies Campbell: My Autobiography By Menzies Campbell

Posted at 1:47PM Wednesday 19 Mar 2008

Menzies Campbell: My Autobiography By Menzies
Campbell
ISBN: 9780340898666

This is a gentle and enjoyable book which will be appreciated by people as nice as Sir Menzies Campbell is himself. But the reader may be struck by the author's decision to top and tail these memoirs with the two greatest defeats of his tripartite career as sprinter, lawyer and politician. It tells us a lot about him and, perhaps, about his party.

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