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Richard Aldington and Lawrence of Arabia : a cautionary tale
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Richard Aldington and Lawrence of Arabia : a cautionary tale

Author: Fred D Crawford
Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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If you plan to portray a national icon in less than heroic terms, you had better be prepared for a fight, as Richard Aldington learned even before the publication of his 1955 biography, Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Enquiry. Fred D. Crawford provides the first examination of all major parties and points of view embroiled in the controversy generated by Aldington's biography of T. E. Lawrence. In two years of
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Crawford, Fred D.
Richard Aldington and Lawrence of Arabia.
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1998
(OCoLC)605359521
Named Person: Richard Aldington; T E Lawrence; Richard Aldington; Richard Aldington; Thomas E Lawrence
Material Type: Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Fred D Crawford
ISBN: 0809321661 9780809321667
OCLC Number: 37156181
Description: xvii, 263 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: The unlikely biographer --
From "biography" to biographical enquiry" --
Dangerous liaisons --
The "Lawrence bureau" mobilizes --
The publisher in spite of himself --
Killing the messenger --
His brother's keeper --
Aldington and the documents --
Conclusion : Aldington's legacy.
Responsibility: Fred D. Crawford.
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If you plan to portray a national icon in less than heroic terms, you had better be prepared for a fight, as Richard Aldington learned even before the publication of his 1955 biography, Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Enquiry. Fred D. Crawford provides the first examination of all major parties and points of view embroiled in the controversy generated by Aldington's biography of T. E. Lawrence. In two years of research, Aldington made major discoveries, including the extent to which Lawrence had cooperated with Lowell Thomas, Robert Graves, and B. H. Liddell Hart in the creation of the "Lawrence legend." For this and other reasons, Aldington concluded that Lawrence was a charlatan, a poseur, and a fraud.

Upon learning of Aldington's antagonism to Lawrence a year before Aldington's book appeared, a powerful group including B. H. Liddell Hart, Robert Graves, A. W. Lawrence, and other Lawrence partisans worked behind the scenes to suppress and denigrate Aldington's biography. These attempts, Crawford notes, reveal a great deal about how private interests can determine what the public is allowed to read.

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