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Examines the meaning of celebrity. Drawing on a wide gallery of celebrities, from O.J. Simpson, Marilyn Munroe, David Bowie and Kurt Cobain to such notorious figures as Timothy McVeigh, Ted Bundy and the Soho bomber, David Copeland, he explores the friction between the public face of the celebrity and the celebrity's actual self.

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Is Britain really perceived as a nation of poorly dressed, roast-beef-eating, snaggle-toothed xenophobes Or do the British perhaps all live in stately homes, and lead supercilious, emotionally repressed, tea-drinking lives This title probes these and other myths, conceptions and misconceptions of Britishness.