STEPHEN WARD: SCAPEGOAT
Book ID/图书代码： 01930014B66993
English Summary/英文概要： The subject of Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Stephen Ward the Musical, Ward was the social cavalier who knew everyone who mattered, and who played an enigmatic role in one of the great political scandals of the 20th Century
The tragic story of the persecution, trial, and death of Stephen Ward is both torturous and infamous. Now, author Douglas Thompson has traced confidants of Ward, speaking for the first time in more than half a century; along with newly-discovered government documents, he has gathered their eyewitness accounts of Downing Street intrigue, sex orgies, and dangerous liaisons. Few truly knew the rakish charmer who was the catalytic character of The Profumo Affair. A talented osteopath and artist, Stephen Ward treated, sketched, and seduced the great and often not-so-good of the post-war years. He healed Churchill and Gandhi, Frank Sinatra and Elizabeth Taylor; he drew Princess Margaret, the Duke of Edinburgh, Harold Macmillan, dukes, duchesses, maharajahs, and Christine Keeler, whose striking likeness by him hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London. Everyone loved the superbly well-connected Stephen Ward. But when Christine Keeler slept with two of his friends—British War Minister John Profumo and Soviet superspy Eugene Ivanov—and President Kennedy’s White House went haywire, suspicion and scandal cast a shroud over Ward and his world. In the middle of a nuclear poker game, he soon had MI5 and MI6 snapping at his heels, along with the KGB, the CIA, and the FBI at his shoulder. The spooks all feared what he might know, or do. The British Establishment, keen to see Ward gone, brushed him off. Posterity is ferociously capricious, but there are still those alive who know the secrets and the true story of Stephen Ward—brilliantly told here.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 安德鲁•劳埃德•韦伯的《史蒂芬•沃德》主题音乐剧中的主人公史蒂芬•沃德是万事通，他认识所有关键人物，并且在20世纪一桩最大的政治丑闻中，扮演了谜一样角色。
斯蒂芬•沃德被迫害、诬陷直至最后死亡的悲剧故事，既令人感到痛苦，又臭名昭著。作者道格拉斯•汤普森追查了沃德的密友和新发现的政府文件，半个多世纪以来首次爆料。他搜集了他们的目击材料，认为这跟唐宁街的阴谋，纵欲和危险的联络人有关。很少有人真正地了解那个在普洛莫富丑闻中起催化剂一样关键作用的放荡性感的女人，斯蒂芬•沃德是一名非常有天分的整骨理疗专家和艺术家，他边治疗边绘画，战后的那段伟大但并不一定很美好的岁月呼之欲出。他治好了丘吉尔，甘地，法兰克•辛纳屈和伊丽莎白•泰勒，他画下了玛格丽特公主，爱丁堡公爵，哈罗德•麦克米伦等达官贵族，以及克里斯汀•基勒，她那张令人惊叹的画像至今仍挂在伦敦国家肖像画廊。每个人都爱着人脉超级广泛的斯蒂芬•沃德。但当克莉丝汀•基勒与史蒂芬•沃德的两个朋友上过床之后，他们分别是英国陆军大臣约翰•普罗莫富和苏联王牌间谍叶夫根尼•伊凡诺夫，肯尼迪总统的白宫变得乱哄哄，猜疑和丑闻像裹尸布一样包围了沃德的人生。因为他已经处于核战争纸牌游戏当中，沃德迅速被军情五处和军情六处抓住了弱点，克格勃、中央情报局和联邦调查局也控制了他。间谍都担心他可能知道什么或者做些什么不该做的事。英国王室渴望看到沃德人间蒸发。后来的故事是那样的众说纷纭，但仍有些人知道这个秘密，以及斯蒂芬沃德的真实故事——就在这本书里。(LNL)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 道格拉斯汤普森是《克林特伊斯特伍德》和《麦当娜对盖伊》这两本书的作者。Douglas Thompson is the author of Clint Eastwood and Madonna v. Guy.
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