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Walter Fuller - The Man Who Had Ideas (Hardcover)
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Walter Fuller - The Man Who Had Ideas (Hardcover)
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This is no ordinary biography. Using unpublished sources, Peter
Winnington reveals the life of Walter Fuller, whom the BBC chose to
edit its Radio Times. Covering the first quarter of the 20th
century, the unfolding story takes us from the birth of student
representation and the revival of folksong (first as entertainment,
then as social protest) to the anti-war movement in America, for
which Fuller produced innovative propaganda. The US harshly
repressed its pacifists and conscientious objectors. To defend
them, Fuller imported from Britain the concept of civil liberties,
and his wife Crystal Eastman co-founded the American Civil
Liberties Union. Back in England after WWI, Fuller was headhunted
for his ideas by the BBC, where he helped shape its public image
and gave Radio Times a format which lasted for fifty years. This
account throws new light on the development of social and political
ideas which still affect our lives today. Counterpointing this
story is the life of Fuller's sister Rosalind, whose philosophy of
free love had the seal of approval of Lord Bertrand Russell. She
inspired in Scott Fitzgerald the story that paid for his wedding,
entranced John Barrymore when she played Ophelia to his Hamlet on
Broadway, and caused Nobel Prize winner Sir Norman Angell to tell a
whopper in his autobiography. "Highly readable and carefully
researched" Martin Ceadel, Professor of Politics, University of
Oxford. G. Peter Winnington's previous books have included
biography and literary criticism. Of his life of Mervyn Peake, the
TLS declared: "Winnington is good not only as a biographer but as a
critic" too."
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