About the Author

Peter Hennessy is an award winning author of numerous books. His most recent is Canada's Big House.

Reviews

"...a grand, lively, leisurely, and provocative study of the prime minister's office and its holders..." --Jerry H. Brookshire, Albion "An entertaining and fiercely researched account by the leading authority on British executive government." --The Economist "One of the most penetrating and entertaining political books of the year." --The Times, London "...the authoritative administrative history of the postwar British premiership." --Publishers Weekly "This study of the office of prime minister ... supersedes everything else written on the subject." --The Observer