Ferdinand Mount

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issue 27 January 2007

  • Edith Wharton

    Hermione Lee

    Chatto, pp. 854

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Ferdinand Mount was head of the No. 10 policy unit under Margaret Thatcher. He is author of a number of books, including ‘The New Few: Power and Inequality in Britain Now’.

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