To Fall Like Lucifer
Author | : Ian Harvey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 1849541205 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781849541206 |
Rating | : 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Download or read book To Fall Like Lucifer written by Ian Harvey and published by . This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of a scandal and its victim, of a society that looked the other way, and of the few who remained loyal. On the night of the 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 brought a brilliant and promising career to a premature end. Originally published in 1971, Harvey's startlingly honest account of his spectacular fall from grace is an extraordinary record of a time and its attitudes, as well as a poignant reflection on a life caught unexpectedly in scandal -- Back cover.