Direct Verzonden The Penguin Book of Fights, Feuds and Heartfelt Hatreds: An Anthology of Antipathy – PHILIP KERR (EDITOR)

In this anthology, Philip Kerr takes the reader on a tour of some of the famous and infamous fights, feuds and heartfelt hatreds which have peppered history from the time of Caesar to the present: Knox’s invective against women, Dr Johnson’s loathing of Americans, a 19th-century duel which lasted for nearly 20 years, the antagonism between Bobby Kennedy and the head of the Teamsters Union, Jimmy Hoffa, the guerrilla war between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford during the filming of “Whatever Happened to Baby J…