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Published by Gill and Macmillan Dublin in 1970 ( a UK and US edition was also issued ) - this is an UK Arrow paperback edition, 1974. This edition includes an epilogue detailing events after th original hardbackj was published, and taking the tale up to 1973.
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