Universally acclaimed as one of the great political lives, Alistair Horne offers a vivid portrait of one of the twentieth-centurýs most complex political figures: the crofters grandson and the dukés son-in-law, the soldier and the scholar, the bon viveur and the devout high churchman. Using extensive interviews and exclusive access to unpublished diaries, letter and private papers, Horne explores the Macmillan hiding behind the showman and reveals the insecure and unhappy man remembered as Britains most unflappablé statesman, one of the most consummate politicians of British history.