View from the Sidelines
Will be published approx. on 19. June 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-7509-3245-5 (ISBN)
Description
The great and the good, the powerful and the feared end up, to misquote Enoch Powell, "lonely, bitter and alone at home". In A View from the Sidelines, Michael Shea offers a behind-the-scenes account of his years with presidents, monarchs, captains of industry, film stars, secret agents and their hangers-on.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7509-3245-5 (9780750932455)
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Person
Michael Shea is a former diplomat and was Press Secretary to the Queen for ten years. He is currently Deputy Lieutenant of the City of Edinburgh. His diplomatic career took him all over the world. He has published many works of fiction and non-fiction, including To Lie Abroad: A View of Diplomacy (Sinclair Stevenson, 1996) and the primacy effect (Orion, 1998)