This year, however, because PEN asked me to annotate the book, I did read it all the way through, and I was glad I did, because when I got to that final sentence, I suddenly remembered something I had long since forgotten: The moment when I thought of that sentence - and how much that moment meant to me. When, more recently, I occasionally did so, it was only to read a chapter or two to prepare myself for a lecture or an interview I was giving, certainly never to read it all the way through to the last line. For a long time after it was published (in 1974, 40 years ago), for a couple of decades probably, I never opened the book. Working on “The Power Broker” - researching it, writing it - took me seven years, and when I finished I was sure I never wanted to see it again.
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OL17942800W Page_number_confidence 94.68 Pages 378 Pdf_module_version 0.0.19 Ppi 300 Republisher_date 20190306105438 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 972 Scandate 20190302000538 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog trent Scribe3_search_id 0116300013103 Tts_version 1. Alfreds nephews Æthelhelm and Æthelwold challenged his disposition of Æthelreds property and could be expected to challenge his son Edward for the kingship. In the year 867, Alfred was on a hunting expedition in the area he turned aside to the Church at Ham-Stoke, where St Guerir was in residence. 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