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Sir Henry Channon (7 March 1897 – 7 October 1958), often known as Chips Channon, was an American-born British Conservative politician, author and diarist. Channon moved to England in 1920 and became strongly anti-American, feeling that American cultural and economic views threatened traditional European and British civilisation.
Mar 9, 2021 · Biography and memoir. Add to myFT. Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon’s diaries — a cuckoo in the aristocratic nest. The unexpurgated writings of the Conservative MP show him to be well-connected...
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Aug 28, 2021 · Diana Cooper. “Chips” Channon by Cecil Beaton. Sir Henry “Chips” Channon, born and raised in Chicago, became the greatest British diarist of the 20th century; called the Pepys of the interwar years he rather more resembled Wodehouse’s Galahad Threepwood or Maugham’s Elliott Templeton.
Apr 4, 2021 · In the first half of the 20th century, no diarist in English would achieve greater notoriety than Henry Channon, AKA “Chips”, his name practically a byword for gossipy flamboyance and...
Sir Henry Channon (7 March 1897 – 7 October 1958), often known as Chips Channon, was an American-born British Conservative politician, author and diarist. Channon moved to England in 1920 and became strongly anti-American, feeling that American cultural and economic views threatened traditional European and British civilisation.
4.06. 54 ratings11 reviews. Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon's extraordinary diaries, first published in 1967, are now considered a modern classic. The years covered in this volume, 1934-53, recall a vanished world where Channon's priviliged orbit circled every social and public figure of the day in a round of parties, balls, country-house weekends ...
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Aug 18, 2021 · Chips : the diaries of Sir Henry Channon : Channon, Henry, Sir, 1898-1958 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
