Supermac is a truly important publication, of significance to everyone interested in the history of the 20th century. Packed with new revelations about Macmillan's private life as well as key events including the 'Tolstoy' controversy, the Suez Crisis, You've Never Had It So Good, the Winds of Change and the Profumo Scandal.
D.R. Thorpe's work on the constitutional history and politics of the 20th century has made him one of Britain's most respected historians. He has written biographies of Alec Douglas-Home, Anthony Eden, Selwyn Lloyd, Austen Chamberlain, Lord Curzon and Lord Butler. Thorpe is a senior member of Brasenose College, Oxford, and has been a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and of St Antony's College, Oxford.
This is how D.R. Thorpe tells the story, eloquently and elegantly,
as he does everything in this exemplary biography, which
complements if it does not entirely supplant Alistair Horne’s
two-volume official Life; Horne is better on the military, Thorpe
on the political and personal. At every juncture Thorpe presents
the evidence in a scrupulous and equable style
*London Review of Books*
A spellbinding insight into the fascinating character of one of the
most remarkable politicians of the twentieth century
*Evening Standard*
DR Thorpe is one of our finest historians, and this is one of his
finest books: painstaking, detailed, but always readable. You come
as close as you can to understanding Macmillan from these pages
*Observer*
This humane, elegantly written, exhaustively researched biography
is the best yet of Macmillan, and indeed one of the best of any
postwar prime minister
*Guardian*
Superb biography...Thorpe has three qualities that make him a
first-rate biographer and they are all evident here. He is a
phenomenal scholar and has left almost no primary source untapped
for this book. He is the master of the anecdote, in which the book
abounds and which as a result makes it a joy to read...But best of
all, Thorpe writes beautifully... he understands that in writing
the life of a politician, it is not all about politics
*Daily Telegraph*
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