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John Buchan: The Presbyterian Cavalier.
From: Contemporary Review
Date: 19951101
Author:Kernohan, R.D.
Andrew Lownie. Constable. 20.00[pounds]. 0-09-47-2500-4.
John Buchan can stand a substantial new biography fifty-five years after his death. when he was Governor-General of Canada (as Lord Tweedsmuir) and still near the zenith of his popularity as a writer. Janet Adam Smith's sympathetic account of him, better informed and balanced than subsequent criticism, appeared in 1965 when it was uncertain how long Buchan's popular fame as a writer of `shockers' could survive. But, although the only shocks now come from Buchan's uninhibited patriotism, sexual reticence, and eminently ...
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