This is how D.R. Thorpe tells the story, eloquently and elegantly, as he does everything in this exemplary biography, which complements if it does not entirely supplant Alistair Horne’s two-volume official Life
Ferdinand Mount, London Review of Books
A spellbinding insight into the fascinating character of one of the most remarkable politicians of the twentieth century
Evening Standard
DR Thorpe is one of our finest historians, and this is one of his finest books: painstaking, detailed, but always readable. You come as close as you can to understanding Macmillan from these pages
Observer
This is how D.R. Thorpe tells the story, eloquently and elegantly, as he does everything in this exemplary biography, which complements if it does not entirely supplant Alistair Horne’s two-volume official Life
Ferdinand Mount, London Review of Books
A spellbinding insight into the fascinating character of one of the most remarkable politicians of the twentieth century
Evening Standard
DR Thorpe is one of our finest historians, and this is one of his finest books: painstaking, detailed, but always readable. You come as close as you can to understanding Macmillan from these pages
Observer
This is how D.R. Thorpe tells the story, eloquently and elegantly, as he does everything in this exemplary biography, which complements if it does not entirely supplant Alistair Horne’s two-volume official Life
Ferdinand Mount, London Review of Books
A spellbinding insight into the fascinating character of one of the most remarkable politicians of the twentieth century
Evening Standard
DR Thorpe is one of our finest historians, and this is one of his finest books: painstaking, detailed, but always readable. You come as close as you can to understanding Macmillan from these pages