Talk:My Life (Mosley autobiography)

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Has anyone read this? I'm curious as to how this man retrospectively views his own life in light of his blackened name. --  Randall00  Talk 22:47, 20 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Hey, you can read Oswald Mosley's book online here: http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/Mosley/ Bronks 22:57, 20 December 2006 (UTC)


 * What an arrogant man. 'My Life'. How boring. 199.111.191.58 (talk) 23:16, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Given the polarizing nature of Mosley's post-parliament political career, the article should give us some idea of the book's content and not just go on about how well it sold, how it was promoted, and how well-written its blurbs claim it to be. Is it a mea culpa, and apologia, an act of defiance...what? (The above link to the online version of the book is no longer active, by the way.) TheScotch (talk) 09:20, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I’ve had a shot at this today, though it’s hard to avoid POV altogether. There are no cites, but the following section ‘Reception’ may be taken as the equivalent. Valetude (talk) 21:22, 11 November 2017 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 15:19, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Kind of bogus
The plaudits from the wife's book are kind of a test case of distortion, in that (like those one-adjective lines used on movie posters) they omit the rest of the review, which could be simply offering an iota of praise among a cartload of opprobrium. Recommend deletion. Theonemacduff (talk) 15:37, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree, this article is a joke. Thatsmeme (talk)16:38, 26 June 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.146.101.7 (talk)

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Seriously Needs Editing
This article has been flagged a few times since 2006 but it doesn't look like anything has been done about it. Half the assertions are without citation or from massively biased sources. The entire article needs revision or deletion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.107.72.200 (talk) 20:31, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

Deleted claims attributed to Diana Oswald's book
The only reference in this article points to his wife's own autobiography. The citations are all suspicious, to say the least. They give no page numbers, the book is not widely available (not at McGill University libraries for example) and does not exist in digital format. There is good reason to believe that they are misleading at best. For example, it attribute a positive reception to Malcolm Muggeridge, claiming: "The only living Englishman who could perfectly well have been either Conservative or Labour prime minister," maintained Malcolm Muggeridge. If he said this, cite him directly, not Mosley's wife. If we are to cite Mosley's wife to represent Muggeridge's exact words, at least give a page number. As far as I can tell, Muggeridge did not hold Mosley in any kind of high esteem, as indicated by this article in the New Statesman. Dussault (talk) 04:12, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

I add that the unreferenced description of the book also strike me as spurious. For example, it claims "Mosley naturally provokes some of the ‘what if?’ theories of history, such as the prospect of Prime Minister Mosley working with the pro-Mussolini King Edward VIII." I found the digital version of the book and none of pages that mention Edward refer to Mussolini. Dussault (talk) 04:23, 23 March 2020 (UTC)