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02/20/2003 Archived Entry: "Andrew Roberts"

THE HISTORIAN WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD: Oh yes, before I forget, you must read this excellent profile in the Telegraph of the High Tory historian and official Kissinger biographer, Andrew Roberts, whose latest book (despite it's godawful self-help title) Hitler & Churchill: Secrets of Leadership, has garnished equally excellent reviews.

Anyone who can admit that he was "a very active bachelor," but that "I'm completely un-priapic now," or cheerfully says he "was an absolutely beautiful child," or despairs because "I don't need to boast . . . but gosh, it's so difficult not to do. I don't know why . . ." gets my vote. Who can't help but like a man who just decides one day to leave his job at a merchant bank and become a spy at MI6, just like that, or who at the grown-up age of 27, upon hearing that Thatcher was resigning, burst into tears (the Telegraph's words) and then decides to immediately rush over to 10 Downing Street with a bouquet of flowers?