Openings & Outings: An Anthology

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Openings & Outings brings together over forty pieces from the long and distinguished career of the writer and commentator David Pryce-Jones. Taking us from a meeting with Rudolf Hesss widow, to the slums of Tangier, to the front lines of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, with many stops in between,Openings & Outings presents over fifty years of insight, from a writer with endless scope and perspective.

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Openings & Outingsshows David Pryce-Jones at his always brilliant and often mordant best. These essays, encounters, reportage, and reviews are drawn from more than half a century of lauding unsung heroes, puncturing inflated reputations, and skewering plausible scoundrels. More than an anthology of fine writing, this is a treasury of hard-won truths and unconventional wisdom about humanity and inhumanity.

Daniel JohnsonEditor,The Article

The 1,800-word article is an art form in itself, and one hard to perfect. For many years David Pryce-Jones has been the prime master of this written form in English, and this anthology reminds us why. Witty, knowledgeable, and hard-hitting when he feels necessary, Pryce-Jones also has a profound moral core in his writing, the very best of which is on dazzling display here. We get the sense of being an insider as he lauds some and mercilessly skewers others, but also that the author is fair- minded, well-researched, and above all wise.

Andrew RobertsAuthor,Churchill: Walking with Destiny

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David Pryce-Jones was born in Vienna in 1936, the son of Alan Pryce-Jones and Threse (Poppy) Fould-Springer. Educated at Eton and Oxford University, he has written on a wide range of subjects, sometimes historical, sometimes contemporary. Among his works are studies of Communism such asThe Strange Death of the Soviet Union, of Nazism such asParis in the Third Reich, and of the world of Islam such asThe Closed Circle. He is also the author of nine novels and an autobiography entitledFault Lines.Since 1999 he has been a senior editor ofNational Review. He and his wife Clarissa Caccia live in London.