James Baldwin and Britain

Baldwin mentioned in quote on the front page and in main article on the Jeremy Thorpe scandal

Source: London Evening Standard

November 29, 1978 (page 1 of 40).

‘Scott tells of night of seduction “Sex with Jeremy”’. (No author)

Front page article on Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe and Norman Scott. JB Mentioned in quote on the front page and in main article: ‘Clutching the witness box, Scott, 38, told how Thorpe took him to live in Oxted, Surrey, where the MP’s mother lived. He had gone to bed having taken some sleeping pills when Thorpe came into the room with some water and a book. The book, by James Baldwin, was called Giovanni’s Room’.