• Copy of Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics by Rob Baker. Title is printed in a white text against a background photo of couples dancing. Subtitle reads "A Sideways Look At Twentieth-Century London".
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Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics

Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics

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Entertaining and engagingly written, Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics explores fascinating stories from London in the twentieth century.
From the return to South London of local hero Charlie Chaplin to the protests that blighted the Miss World competition in 1970, the book covers the events and personalities that reflect the glamorous, scandalous, political and subversive place that London was and is today. Learn about, among many other captivating tales, exactly where and how the spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean spent their last ever day in London, the grisly murder of Stan the Spiv and the unlikely death of a defrocked girl-crazed priest. 
  • Paperback
  • 320 pages
  • Published 2015 
  • ISBN: 9781445651194
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