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'Charles Williams, who captained Oxford in 1955, played several seasons for Essex and became a Labour life peer in 1985, has produced, in the circumstances, a solid, all-round job with his new Life of Don Bradman. The circumstances are that the non-smoking, near-teetotal Bradman is a dull dog, once prone to an infinite number of psychosomatic and other ailments, and that there have been over a dozen previous books about him, mainly by those who had the crucial advantage of being colleagues, or who saw him in action from close to. There are also four books about his own career by Sir Donald himself.'  (Introduction)