The Contact Man. The Story of Sidney Stanley and the Lynskey Tribunal by Stanley Wade Baron - 1966

London England: Secker & Warburg. Very Good/Fair. 1966. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo Hardcover Hardcover. First Edition. The Contact Man. Slight foxing to end inside covers and edge. Wear and tear to D/J. Couple of small pieces of D/J. missing. Price clipped to D/J. Just eighteen years ago, soon after the Labour Partys sweeping victory in the post-war General Election, the country was electrified by a full-scale inquiry into alleged corruption among Government officials. The Lynskey Tribunal, which was the headline sensation of 1948, is still remembered for the vivid and extraordinary personality of Sidney Stanley, whose appearance in the witness-box offered the public an incredible mixture of comedy and chicanery. Scoundrel or genius, this stateless alien with a glib tongue and an over-exuberant nature represented a completely new element in British society: the contact-man, the spiv, the influence-pedlar. Through the elaborate and joyful machinations of this most unlikeloy business wizard, two public careers were ruined and the Labour Government itself momentarily threatened with disrupt. 251 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) .