To Fall Like Lucifer
The Lost Story of a Very British Scandal
Published on 4. October 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-1-84954-120-6 (ISBN)
Description
On the night of 18 November 1958, Ian Harvey, then a junior minister in Harold Macmillan's Tory government, was arrested with a guardsman in St James's Park. Homosexuality would not be decriminalised until a decade later; the scandal that ensued prompted Harvey's resignation from the government and Parliament, and the end of a brilliant career. Originally published in 1971, Harvey's account of his spectacular fall from grace is an extraordinary record of a time and its attitudes as well as a poignant reflection of a life caught unexpectedly in scandal.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84954-120-6 (9781849541206)
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Person
Ian Harvey was MP for Harrow East and a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State to the Foreign Office in Harold Macmillan's government. After his political career ended he worked in advertising and public relations. He died in 1987.