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Andrew Kaighin

Andrew Kaighin reviews 'Jeff: The rise and fall of a political phenomenon' by Tony Parkinson

October 2000, no. 225 01 October 2000
Political biographies are renowned as being notoriously difficult to write. Given the peculiar role of authorisation this is not surprising. The ‘authorisation’ – the act of writing – of a political biography is diminished and crowded out by a subject who not only defines the work’s content, but can literally refuse to authorise the text. In this context, Tony Parkinson’s biography of ... (read more)