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Harry Mount read Classics at Oxford and was a Latin tutor before becoming a journalist. A former leader writer and New York correspondent at the Daily Telegraph, he writes about politics, buildings and language for lots of British and American newspapers and magazines. His memoir of his time as a barrister’s pupil, My Brief Career, is also published by Short Books.
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