Byron Rogers

The stuff of legend

This book could have been a classic.

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  • Did You Really Shoot the Television?

    Max Hastings

    HarperPress, pp. 278

This book could have been a classic. It starts as an account of the author’s family, no better, no worse than many such; but then, amongst the grandparents and the uncles, one figure starts to shoulder his way through the rout of characters, slowly at first, but then, perhaps two thirds of the way through, you realise he is dominating everything.

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