Éamon de Valera: A Will to Power

by Ronan Fanning

?amon 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 Valera's shortcomings with a recognition of his achievement as the statesman who single-handedly severed Ireland's last ties to England.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674660382
• ISBN13: 9780674660380
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"