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Published by Gill and Macmillan Dublin ( a UK and US edition was also issued ) - this is the 1st printing in hardcover 1970- internally good - the dustjacket, now in a protective jacket protector , with moderate to heavy edgewear to edges of jacket , in pale green cloth covers , titles in silver to spine.
Spine slanted slightly, edgewear to upper edges of cover and head of spine.
This is undoubtedly a major biography. Lord Longford and Mr. O'Neill have had every help from de Valera himself, not only in making his voluminous private papers available but in allowing himself to be cross-examined at length on many episodes...This biography is of immense interest to all students of Irish history.
Robert Blake, Sunday Times
It is a remarkable achievement to have brought 60 years of political activity within the compass of a single volume...the authors have made vital contributions to historical knowledge from the Easter Rising though the anxious period of the inter-war years to the relative tranquillity of de Valera's old age.
A. J. P. Taylor, New Statesman
The most impressive biography of de Valera yet to appear.
Robert Kee, Observer
Destined to remain the standard work on its subject in the English language for our generation at least.
Tomas O Fiach, Irish Press
Many books were published on De Valera during his long lifetime ( and subsequent to it) - this was perhaps as close to an 'authorised biography' as exists - written when De Valera was at the end of his political career.
