"Autobiography—that unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people."
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"Biographers and Their Victims," Debate with A. G. Gardiner at The London School of Economics (June 1923)
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Philip Guedalla
Philip Guedalla (12 March 1889 – 16 December 1944) was a British barrister, and a popular historical and travel writer and biographer.
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