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DEEPLY PERSONAL PORTRAITS, AND A BIT OF SCORE SETTLING.(L.A LIFE)(Review)

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From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date: 19960915
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Byline: Michael Kimmelmann The New York Times

Title: ``Some Remarkable Men: Further Memoirs''

Author: James Lord

Data: Illustrated. 324 pages, Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $27.50

Our rating: Four stars

``Some Remarkable Men'' is an almost guilty pleasure to read, a wickedly entertaining book, written with old-fashioned panache. It also means to be a work of moral dimension. A distant and highfalutin comparison may be to the letters of Horace Walpole, the English chronicler of society. But you have to imagine Walpole writing for Spy.

James Lord, the ...

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