Michael Jago read Ancient History and Philosophy at University College, Oxford before settling in the USA in 1980. For fifteen years he ran an educational travel business, focusing on the battlefields of Western Europe. Previously a publisher and editor of a number of journals, he now specialises in biography. Previous publications include The Man Who Was George Smiley: The Life of George Bingham and Clement Attlee: The Inevitable Prime Minister (shortlisted for the 2015 Paddy Power Political Biography of the Year Award), published by Biteback in 2013 and 2014 respectively. He lives in both Chicago and south-west France.
"[An] excellent political biography ... well worth reading." - The Spectator; "[An] excellent, insightful biography of Rab Butler, ... a thoughtful, liberal Conservative whose time never seemed to come."- Choice
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