<span>The
 first full biography of the notorious spy  and an X-ray of the British
 ruling class that produced him. Once an untouchable member of England's
 establishmenta world-famous art historian and a man knighted by the 
Queen of Englandin a single stroke Anthony Blunt became an object of 
universal hatred when, in 1979, Margaret Thatcher exposed him as a 
Soviet spy. In Anthony Blunt: His Lives , Miranda Carter shows how one 
man lived out opposing trends of his centuryfirst as a rebel against 
his class, then as its epitomeand yet embodied a deeper paradox. In the
 1920s, Blunt was a member of the Bloomsbury circle; in the 1930s he was
 a left-wing intellectual; in the 50s and 60s he became a camouflaged 
member of the Establishment. Until his treachery was made public, Blunt 
was a world-famous art historian, recognized for his ground-breaking 
work on Poussin, Italian art, and old master drawings; at the Courtauld 
Institute he trained a whole generation of academics and curators. And 
yet even as he ascended from rebellion into outward conformity, he was a
 homosexual when homosexuality was a crime, and a traitor when the 
penalty was death. How could one man contain so many contradictions? The
 layers of secrecy upon which Blunt's life depended are here stripped 
away for the first time, using testimony from those who knew Blunt well 
but have until now kept silent and documents from sealed Russian 
archives, including a secret autobiography Blunt wrote for his 
controllers. Miranda Carter's Anthony Blunt is the first full biography 
of the mythical Cold War warrior, and is at once an astonishing history 
of one the century's greatest deceits and a deeply nuanced account of 
fifty years in the British power elite, as experienced by one deep 
inside who wished to bring it down.</span>

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