Volume 50, Number 9 · May 29, 2003
The Perfect Secretary
By Larry McMurtry
BOOKS CONSULTED FOR THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd George: War Leader, 1916–1918
by John Grigg
London: Allen Lane/Penguin, 670 pp., £25
The Years That Are Past
by Frances Lloyd George
London: Hutchinson, 296 pp. (1967; out of print)
Frances, Countess Lloyd George: More than a Mistress
by Ruth Longford
Gracewing, 214 pp. (1996; out of print)
The Decline and Fall of Lloyd George
by Max Aitkens Beaverbrook
London: Collins, 320 pp. (1963; out of print)
Lloyd George: A Diary
by Frances Stevenson, edited by A.J.P. Taylor
Harper and Row, 338 pp. (1971; out of print)
Stranger on the Square
by Arthur and Cynthia Koestler
Random House, 242 pp. (1984; out of print)
Many lovers, in their first raptures, nourish—usually briefly—the hope of dying at the same time; and yet it is commonly only the long-mated who manage nonviolent but near-simultaneous deaths: the Buckminster Fullers, for example, or Will and Ariel Durant, or Sir James and Lady Frazer, so much of whose life was spent beneath The Golden Bough. It is as if the Gatekeeper, having come for one partner, obligingly keeps the gate ajar long enough for the other partner to slip through.
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