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Strachey was a synthetic thinker; a lover of ideas, easily seduced and possessing the dangerous capacity to enhance their seductive power. The Keynes of the Tract, the Keynes of the General Theory, J. A. Hobson, Oswald Mosley, Marx, Lenin, Gunnar Myrdal, Herman Kahn and the American deterrent theorists — all left their imprint and all were the beneficiaries of Strachey’s remarkable gift for popularisation. In the case of Marx and Keynes, of course, the imprint was indelible.
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J. Strachey, ‘Letter’, New Statesman, 4 August 1956, 135.
Peter Simple ‘Obituary’, Daily Telegraph, 17 August 1963.
M. Foot, ‘The strangled Strachey’, Tribune, 15 June 1962.
R. Crossman, Guardian, 19 September 1963.
R. Boothby, The Times, 17 July 1963.
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Thompson, N. (1993). Conclusion. In: John Strachey. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230377486_14
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