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AUTHOR'S NOTE
In a shorter form, the chapters on Mencken and Bogart originally appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, and the one on Edward VIII in the New Yorker. The chapters on Chaplin, Bertrand Russell and Adlai Stevenson are quite new.
A.C.
Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material. Crown Publishers, Inc., and George G. Harrap Company Ltd. Brief excerpts from The Later Ego by James Agate, edited by Jacques Barzun. Copyright 1951 by Crown Publishers Inc.
J. B. Lippincott Company and George Weidenfeld Nicolson Ltd. Brief excerpts from Edward VIII by Frances Donaldson. Copyright © 1974, 1975 by Frances Donaldson.
Little, Brown and Company in association with The Atlantic Monthly Press and George Allen Unwin Ltd. Poem entitled 'To Edith' reprinted from The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell i872-igi4. Copyright 1951,1952,1953, © 1967 by Bertrand Russell. Copyright © 1961 by Allen Unwin Ltd. Copyright © 1967 by George Allen Unwin Ltd.
The New York Times. Excerpt from an article by Harold Laski reprinted from the December 7, 1936, issue of The New York Times. Copyright by The New York Times Company.
Published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.