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Ronan Fanning, Eamon de Valera: A Will to Power

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. 308 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978-0674660380

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Fanning's biography of de Valera is the latest in a long line of studies of the man regarded as the single most significant figure ion modern Irish history. It is based on a lifetime study of de Valera by one of Ireland greatest historians. In little over 300 pages Fanning gives the reader the best overview of de Valera's remarkable career that can be found.

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Rossi, J. Ronan Fanning, Eamon de Valera: A Will to Power. Soc 54, 310–311 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-017-0140-y

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