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	Guardian \| An electable Tory voice
		Ferdinand Mount's Mind the Gap is a book about social class and the dangerously deepening divide between what he calls the Uppers and the Downers.
		Mount's is the first conservative book in a long while to acknowledge honestly that social mobility ground to a halt 25 years ago.
		Mount accepts that setting people free to build will mean more eyesores and landscape blots, as people are allowed to build in ramshackle ways.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5007253-103677,00.html (1188 words)

	The Observer \| Review \| Observer review: Mind the Gap by Ferdinand Mount
		Mount believes that in the years (roughly) between 1800 and 1940 the British lower classes built a remarkable civilisation and then the upper classes destroyed it.
		Mount's recommendations, though, seem to be anything but: 'Only a wholehearted, even reckless opening up of genuine power to the bottom classes is likely to improve their self-esteem,' he writes.
		Mount is almost entirely silent on the subject of ethnicity, which has had a profound impact on class in Britain since the 1950s.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,1312820,00.html (731 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Subversive Family, by Ferdinand Mount (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Ferdinand Mount's thesis is that we have been living through a period of ideologically-inspired attack, meant to persuade us that there is nothing "natural" about love, marriage, the family, or, for that matter, human nature.
		...In the case at hand, Mount contends that the "progressive" view of the family is compounded of myths, supported by misleading or simply false readings of the historical evidence...
		...Nor is it true, according to Mount, that most families imposed marital partnerships on their unwilling children or that mothers were indifferent to the survival of very young children...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V96I4P58-1.htm (1131 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Review: Fairness by Ferdinand Mount
		Gus Cotton, Mount's diffident civil-servant narrator, would hardly look out of place in A Dance to the Music of Time : he is a halting presence on the edge of things, a minute observer of human foibles, eager to please, always in search of an escape route when the emotional going gets tough.
		Mount specialises, too, in the unheralded reappearance: Dr Maintenon-Smith from the earlier novels, here found working on a fog-bound hospital ship, and Gerald Moonman, editor of the satirical magazine Frag (a dead ringer for Private Eye), re-emerging to go off with his brother's wife.
		Mount's earlier novel The Clique (1978) - not part of the Chronicle series but capable of being read alongside it - was also like this; in fact, it was even more sharply figurative.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,449050,00.html (1000 words)

	Fictional rival of Pepys is a fun match for the master
		That's the course taken by Ferdinand Mount, the editor of the Times Literary Supplement, and his invention is far more entertaining than any genealogical list of births and deaths could ever be.
		Mount's conceit is that a remarkable diary is found, one that parallels Pepys' far more famous journal, which he wrote between 1660 and 1669.
		It is written by one Jeremiah Mount, known as Jem.
	www.freep.com /fun/books/qjem22.htm (472 words)

	Tim Worstall: Ferdinand Mount.
		Writing in the Telegraph Ferdinand Mount uses the old quote from Douglas Jay, about the Man in Whitehall knowing best, in its full glory.
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		Mount - the housewife is supposed be an adult person, not a child of any other age.
	timworstall.typepad.com /timworstall/2005/03/ferdinand_mount.html (665 words)

	BOOKS: Jem (and Sam): A Revenger's Tale, by Ferdinand Mount - 25 August 2001
		Ferdinand Mount has been a prominent figure in the British political and literary worlds for more than two decades.
		From this handful of passing references, Ferdinand Mount has created a full-blooded character and placed him at the centre (if one-step removed on most occasions) of all the historical action of late 17th Century England: the end of the Protectorate, the Restoration, the Anglo-Dutch Wars and the Great Fire of London.
		Ferdinand Mount has a real talent for characterisation and his empathetic approach to life and its foibles (so prominent in his other works not least The Subversive Family) combine to produce a work of real quality.
	www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2001aug25_books2.html (496 words)

	Ferdinand Mount: The Iraq war prize we refuse to believe in
		Ferdinand Mount: The Iraq war prize we refuse to believe in
		Haven't encountered Ferninand Mount or his thinking before, but he is a breath of fresh optimistic air.
		Mount are now cluing in to the magnitude of his imagination as a force for change.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/838930/posts (1385 words)

	As English as God
		erdinand Mount is a curiosity among novelists—a writer so apparently anachronistic and traditional in manner that it amounts almost to eccentricity.
		To say that nobody else in England writes novels remotely resembling his is not necessarily to make a point about his originality; there used to be a great number of writers mining a similar vein.
		Mount is the most alarmingly English of novelists, and his manner is unmistakably English in every sentence.
	www.theatlantic.com /doc/prem/200207/hensher (289 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Jem (And Sam) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In Jem (and Sam), Ferdinand Mount uses his putative ancestor Jeremiah Mount, a real-life drinking companion of the great diarist, as a springboard into the tumultuous 1600s.
		The premise of Mount's novel is that "Jem" Mount was more than just a drinking buddy of Pepys's; indeed, he was something of a rival--albeit an unsuccessful one--in love, in politics, and ultimately in literature.
		Ferdinand Mount has crafted this picaresque tale with wit, intelligence, and a thorough knowledge of the times and the vocabulary with which to describe it.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/078670649X (738 words)

	Pepys' Diary: Mount, Jeremiah
		The author creates a fictional ancestor, with the name of Jeremiah Mount, and weaves him in and out of the life of Samual Pepys.
		“Mount is careful to include salient passages from Pepys’s diaries where they apply, providing all the familiarity with the actual source that’s needed to enjoy the novel.
		(As well as, with fictional license, Gen. Monk’s wife, Nan.) At the time of publication, Ferdinand Mount was editor of the “Times Literary Supplement,” and Jeremiah may possibly be an ancestor.
	www.pepysdiary.com /p/571.php (350 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Observer review: Fairness by Ferdinand Mount
		With Fairness Mount eschews the picaresque of his previous splendid novel Jem and Sam for something more attuned to the uncertain mood of the final decades of the twentieth century, bound up in the watchful, loyal attentions of its hero.
		Gus inhabits the dark suits and brooding silences of Nick Carraway, surrounded by Dodo as a malevolent Gatsby, and the unattainable Helen.
		Mount nourishes his tale with a gentle, unfussy elegance that implies rather than urges, and celebrates a humorous melancholia worthy of Evelyn Waugh, and a fading model of the English novel.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,449752,00.html (694 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Jem (and Sam): A Revenger's Tale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Mount manages to keep the reader intrigued as Jem careers from bawdy houses to Oliver Cromwell's inner circle, from Dutch Wars to Jamaica, from political intrigue to treasure hunting.
		This Mount does to brilliant effect, impersonating a real-life distant ancestor who appears in Pepys's diary.
		Told from the perspective of Mr Jeremiah Mount, a salesman of pornographic material, we get his lifestory bit by bit.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099273144 (641 words)

	Joachim Ferdinand Richardt ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Joachim Ferdinand Richardt, ArchitecturalDdetails from Mt. Vernon, 1858
		Joachim Ferdinand Richardt, Studies of Trees at Mount Vernon, 1858
		Joachim Ferdinand Richardt, View of the Potomac River from Mount Vernon, 1858
	wwar.com /masters/r/richardt-joachim_ferdinand.html (420 words)

	Mount, Ferdinand. Jem (and Sam).
		Mount has carved an engaging and often witty account of Restoration England out of the memoirs of his ancestor Jeremiah (Jem) Mount.
		Although Jem himself describes his experiences as "the worm's-eye view," Mount's velvety prose elevates the story and finds beauty in Jem's darkest moments.
		Mount has crafted this story so well that one cannot help but like the selfish, envious Jem.
	archive.ala.org /booklist/v95/adult/my2/31mount.html (175 words)

	Record - November 15, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Sir Ferdinand Mount (right) signs a copy of his book for Barbara and Richard J. Mahoney, the Distinguished Executive in Residence at the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy.
		Mount, an author and recently retired editor of the London Times Literary Supplement, gave the annual T.S. Eliot Lecture recently in Holmes Lounge in Ridgley Hall.
		The Record is the University's weekly newspaper for faculty, staff and students.
	record.wustl.edu /2002/11-15-02/signhere.html (81 words)

	Powell's Books - The Man Who Rode Ampersand by Ferdinand Mount
		"Mount, a prizewinning novelist and editor of the (London) Times Literary Supplement, challenges, intrigues, and ultimately rewards his readers with a great romp of a novel, which blends two general types of fiction: the historical novel and the character study."
		In its sense of place, period and social interaction, Mount's work is like a kind of plebeian Anthony Powell saga — absolute catnip for Anglophiles."
		This picaresque portrait of a gentleman jockey is set during the tumultuous years surrounding World War II--the first novel in Mount's critically acclaimed series, A Chronicle of Modern Twilight.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0786710071-0 (369 words)

	Ferdinand Mount - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Over US$165,000 has been donated since the drive began on 19 August.
		Ferdinand Mount (born 1939) is a British writer, columnist for the Sunday Times and commentator on politics, and Conservative Party politician.
		He was head of the policy unit in 10 Downing Street in 1982/3, during the time when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister, and wrote the 1983 Tory general election manifesto.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ferdinand_Mount (288 words)

	Salon Books \| How to get on the cover of the New York Times Book Review
		"But the second thing you think is that this is a chance to do something different." This summer, "something different" has meant featuring "Jem (and Sam)," Mount's historical novel about a colleague of Samuel Pepys, and "The Colony of Unrequited Dreams," Johnston's Dickensian tale of a Newfoundland politician, on the cover.
		While the two novels are by all accounts solid pieces of work, neither author is a household name (even in literary houses), and the Times did not cover either writer's previous novels (though Mount's "The Subversive Family: An Alternative History of Love and Marriage" was reviewed in 1993).
		Nonfiction books that aren't weighty biographies of mid-century statesmen or magisterial treatments of important historical or political topics also stand a better chance of landing a cover review in the summer months.
	www.salon.com /books/log/1999/07/29/mcgrath (599 words)

	Tim Worstall: Ferdinand Mount on Clarke
		Ferdinand Mount is rather scathing about Kenneth Clarke:
		Beneath that endearing Quangle Wangle hat there lurks a man with a rather Continental view of the proper role of the state, more Bismarck than Baldwin.
		One cannot help recalling the heckler who replied to Harold Wilson's rhetorical question "Why am I standing up for the Royal Navy?" with the words "Because you're in Chatham".
	timworstall.typepad.com /timworstall/2005/08/ferdinand_mount.html (214 words)

	Frederick Ferdinand Schafer Catalog, Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Frederick Ferdinand Schafer, Mount Hood from the Dalles, Oregon 44 x 72 inches
		This is an initial inventory of the paintings of Frederick Ferdinand Schafer, a nineteenth-century landscape artist of what is sometimes called the San Francisco or Rocky Mountain school.
		Schafer was born in Germany but most of his known works were painted in California and the inter-mountain West between 1876 and 1911.
	ffscat.lcs.mit.edu:16080 /ffshtml (194 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Mind the Gap: Class in Britain Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		To pretend that class distinctions are a thing of the past, is, as Ferdinand Mount argues, nothing more than an ostrich-like attempt at idealism.
		Through fine observation and extensive research, covering issues as diverse as the distribution of wealth, the significance of speech patterns and the politics of egalitarianism, the author pursues an oft-times illusive answer to the fundamental question: How can oppressive inequality in Britain be wiped out once and for all?
		Ferdinand Mount has written an interesting and challenging book about working class culture.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1904095941 (560 words)

	Free Life 29, April 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Offering powerful evidence for the Libertarian cause from an unexpected quarter, Mount argues that counter to popular conception, neither State nor Church has ever looked benevolently on marriage.
		For example, discussing the huge obstacles both State and Church have placed in the way of divorce, Mr Mount writes:
		Neither the Law nor the Church ever grappled with the idea - common in almost all pre-Christian and non-Christian societies - that any serious conception of marriage must include provision for dissolving disastrous marriages.
	www.seangabb.co.uk /freelife/flhtm/fl29subs.htm (229 words)

	Et tu, Britain ? \| MetaFilter
		How "USA" became a dirty word "Small c" conservative Ferdinand Mount, for the UK Telegraph, describes the rise of anti-american sentiment among British soccer fans: "And what 30,000 Arsenal supporters were chanting for two hours....was 'USA!
		You realize that this is the same Ferdinand Mount that was the first head of Margaret Thatcher's Downing Street Policy Unit?
		How can anyone describe him as a conservative with a small 'c' is beyond me. As one of the chief architects of the Thatcherite ideological revolution, Mount's 'C' is as big as they get.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/42595 (3902 words)

	Ransom Center Scrapbook
		The Ransom Center donated twenty exhibition keepsake booklets, Aunt Dicy Tales: John Biggers' Drawings for the Folktale, to the Austin Independent School District for their Black History student recognition program last February.
		Ferdinand Mount, writer and editor of the Times Literary Supplement, delivered a talk to British Studies co-sponsored by the Ransom Center titled "British Culture Since the Eighteenth Century: An Open Society" last December.
		He had a chance to talk with Austin American-Statesman Arts Editor Michael Barnes who quoted him in the unprecedented series in the Statesman that ran on the Ransom Center in February.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /news/newsletters/2002/summer/14.html (284 words)

	Powell's Books - The Man Who Rode Ampersand by Ferdinand Mount
		Aldous (Gus) Cotton — the asthmatic hero of Ferdinand Mount's critically acclaimed series A Chronicle of Modern Twilight, including his recent Booker Prize-nominated novel Fairness — has a problem: Its name is Harry, a carouser, an amateur jockey, a compulsive gambler, a charmer with an unfortunate penchant for excess.
		At the same time, Harry is thrown into the maelstrom of the Second World War, where comedy meets tragedy to ill-fated effect.
		In all, Harry's career vibrantly reflects the downward spiral of a once-vigorous nation, and leaves the sometimes amused and frequently appalled Gus trying very hard to love his father.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0786711906-0 (126 words)

	The Connection.org : For the Love of Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		and Ferdinand Mount, editor of the Times Literary Supplement.
		Ferdie Mount: There is a limit to how far you want to change something.
		Derwent May: There was never any point in using up the old reviews.
	www.theconnection.org /shows/2002/02/20020206_b_main.asp (191 words)

	LRB \| Ferdinand Mount : Lord Cardigan's Cherry Pants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
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		Ferdinand Mount’s Mind the Gap: The New Class Divide in Britain is out from Short Books.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v26/n10/moun01_.html (236 words)

	Powell, Anthony: To Keep the Ball Rolling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Most importantly, Powell's lively memoirs banish all thought of the man as a relic of the British gentry.
		He was a modernist, a Tory, and more than a little interested in genealogy and peerage, but a man who, according to Ferdinand Mount, "miraculously knew what life was like."
		You may purchase this title at these fine bookstores.
	www.press.uchicago.edu /cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/14247.ctl (315 words)

	Communism
		edited and with an introduction by Ferdinand Mount
		Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993.
		Communism (edited and with an introduction by Ferdinand Mount; ISBN: 0226543242; (pbk.
	isbndb.com /d/book/communism.html (231 words)

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