The 'Second' Lectures

He was elected to a te tutorial fellowship in philosophy at new college, but the war intervened. He found another metier, interpreting america to the british foreign office from a desk in washington. The phone rings off the hook, saying, isn't he wonderful? Isn't he? Amazing? Best thing to hit washington for 50 years. What sounded like an extraordinary verbal facility in the lecture theatre was actually anything but conversation. His heart, unsurprisingly, was not in the teutorial grind. But you get a sense of how little the britishes establishment understood America by reading skidelski's life of cates.