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The Inventive Life of George H. McFadden
Richard Carreno
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"The Inventive Life of George H. McFadden", is Richard Carreno's latest foray into biographical history, and whose value lies in Carreno's ability to present contrasts in intellectual drive, psychological melancholy and isolation, closet homosexuality, and life contributions in such a manner that invites attention and inspection by audiences immersed in life stories and intellectual pursuits alike... not just Pennsylvanians or art students.

George H. McFadden stood out from the proper Philadelphian in many ways. His different relationships and personas in disparate cultural groups, his shifting approach to "finding ancient things" that led him to sailing and travel experiences (and, ultimately, to a mysterious death), and his literary prowess all come to light in a revealing examination of a Renaissance Man whose intellectual pursuits were anything but ordinary. From his draw to Cyprus (his adopted homeland) to his amateur archaeological pursuits, participation in war, and often-clever political maneuvers to find ways out of socially challenging situations, McFadden's life is narrated with the dual atmosphere of intellectual examination and adventure story:

For a man of forty-one, the timing smacked of desperation. His aspiration was equally disquieting. His twenty-year career in Cyprus had been shadowed by war and mired in his own complacency and vainglory. His way out modeled the successful career arcs of Daniel and Young -- as eminent archaeologists and museum curators. McFadden was a formidable applicant. He was fluent in French, German, and in modern Greek. He had a learned reading ability in Latin and ancient Greek. His work as a Penn Museum "research fellow" at Kourion, as a Navy veteran, and as the author of entries to professional and academic publications (not to mention his translation of the Iliad) were additional pluses. The result reveals a life worthy of discourse and discovery, and is very highly recommended for libraries interested in riveting tales of lives vividly and powerfully lived.

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FEAR AND LOATHING: AN AMERICAN

ARCHAEOLOGIST'S

MYSTERIOUS DEATH IN CYPRUS

In a new book about American archaeologist George H. McFadden, author Richard Carreño explores McFadden’s the life in Episkopi, Cyprus as a famed digger at Kourion and, later, his still largely unexplained death at sea in 1953. Carreño, a writer from the United States, explores McFadden’s many faceted life as an accomplished archeologist, a World War II American spy in Cyprus, a poet, and scholar and the intrigue that led to his possibly nefarious death in The Inventive Life of George H. McFadden: Archaeologist, Poet, Scholar, Spy, soon to be published by Camino Books, Philadelphia, USA. The book will be available in major local bookshops, where English-language books are available.

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GEORGE H. McFADDEN was the scion of one of the twentieth century’s richest and most prominent Philadelphia families. His abbreviated life, cut short by drowning when he was nearly forty-six years old, was crammed with adventure, scholarship, and service to country. He was a reluctant cotton broker; an accomplished poet; a scholar of ancient Greece and Rome; a student of German literature; a translator of ancient Greek texts; an operative for the US wartime spy service, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS); and for many years an archaeologist with the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia. He was a devotée of Greek national life—an unabashed philhellene—and a founder and financier of Penn’s extensive archaeological project at Kourion in southwest Cyprus.

Despite a life salted with daring, enterprise, and intrigue—the stuff of high drama—McFadden bore a weight of inescapable melancholy. He was estranged from his parents. His siblings were remote. He never married. Personal relationships were founded more by association than friendship. They were often marred by conflict; seldom, to his chagrin, by mutual respect. He was close to only a few. He closeted his homosexuality, knowing its disclosure would have resulted in professional and social ruin.

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Lord of Hosts: The Life of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon

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Lord of Hosts: The Life of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon
Author: Richard Carreño
Publisher: PhilabooksPress
ISBN: 978-1-257-37529-5Hardcover 178 pp $29.99
Publication: April 2011
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HE WAS A friend of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Fabulously rich. Married to a beautiful Guinness heiress. A Member of Parliament, an Oxford grad, a knight who owned London's most luxurious townhouse where he reigned as 'Lord of Hosts.'
Sir Henry Channon III, pre-war Britain's most eminent and outrageous pre-war politician and Society doyen, was also American-born and gay -- with lovers ranging from playwright Terrence Rattigan to the Duke of Kent, King George VI's brother.
Remembered as the irreverent 'Chips,' Channon is best known as a diarist, the proverbial 'fly on the wall.' The 'wall,' in Chips' case, being the halls of Parliament, the apartments of the rich and powerful, and his own pleasure dome at No. 5 Belgrave Square. Channon's memoirs, compiled in a single volume more than 40 years ago as Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon, offer a compelling view of the tumultuous period from the 1930s through War World II. At least, for historians.
For most of the rest of us, Chips, whose preposterous adventure starts in Chicago en route to Paris, Oxford, and finally to London where he died in 1958, has just been a footnote. Quite literally. In scores of period histories. To be sure, a tantalising footnote. But a footnote, nonetheless.
It was a tale never fully fleshed out. Until now.
American author Richard Carreño takes the Chips saga to another dimension in a first-ever, full-length biography of Britain's 'last' courtier. Especially so, since Carreño's Lord of Hosts: The Life of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon makes it plain that some of the best and most scandalous bits of Channon's life were censored from the posthumous, official diaries. The result, thanks to Carreño, is Chips' unofficial joyride, a reckoning of power, sex, drugs, and wealth -- and even skulduggery regarding the very publication of the diaries themselves.
Carreño researched Lord of Hosts, over several years, in Chicago, New York, and in Paris, as well as in Britain. Based in Philadelphia, he is a free-lance writer, academic, and bookseller. His other books include Clotheshorse: A History and Guide to Riding Apparel, also published by PhilabooksPress. The author's website is www.RichardCarreno.blogspot.com.

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