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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20000115
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The Unforgiving Minute: A Life Of Rudyard Kipling. By Harry Ricketts (Pimlico, pounds 12.50).

Rudyard Kipling may have been the unofficial spokesman for the British Empire but there was one aspect of his many-faceted life which has never previously come to the fore - his unqualified, obsessive and sometimes ridiculous hatred for the Liberal Party.

This fine biography by Harry Ricketts fills that omission. The author describes how Kipling's almost hysterical feelings about the party even caused him to blame the Liberals for the Suffragettes and, more bizarrely still, for ...

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