Ebook: A View from the Sidelines

Michael Shea offers a light-hearted behind the scenes account of his years with presidents, monarchs, captains of industry, film stars, secret agents and their hangers-on. The great and the good, the powerful and the feared end up, to misquote Enoch Powell, lonely, bitter and alone at home. This book, with its glimpses of the famous and the infamous, and their heroic or sometimes tawdry private habits and attitudes, takes some of the grief out of fame and lets us, for a while, come a bit closer to our idols and their feet of clay.