Eamon De Valera: A Will to Power (Hardcover)
Eamon de Valera embodies Irish independence much as de Gaulle personifies French resistance and Churchill exemplifies British resolve. Ronan Fanning offers a reappraisal of the man who remains the most famous,and most divisive,political figure in modern Irish history,reconciling de Valeras shortcomings with a recognition of his achievement as the statesman who single-handedly severed Irelands last ties to England.Born in New York in ,de Valera was sent away to be raised by his mothers f