- Hardcover: 672 pages
- Publisher: Gill and Macmillan (Sep 30 1991)
- ISBN-10: 071711600X
- ISBN-13: 978-0717116003
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.4 x 6.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The autobiography of a former Irish Prime Minister, Garret FitzGerald. He has been an economist, journalist, barrister, historian and politician during his life. These and other experiences are recorded in his autobiography.
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All in a life; bigger than his party,
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His successor John Bruton did a somewhat memorable job as Taoiseach; but Fine Gael's revolving door leaders since then have yet to make a comparable mark to that made by Dr. Garret Fitzgerald on Fine Gael and on Ireland.This book shows why they haven't. Son of prominent early 20th century republicans, airline executive, academic, Fine Gael leader and coalition Taoiseach, and commentator on just about everything: Dr. Fitzgerald had a head start on his party colleagues. And we see how a Dublin academic could make himself more plausible to the British media than the fulminations of Northern Ireland Unionist leaders. You won't find much in this book about Garret Fitzgerald's support for Fianna Fáil in the early 1960s, the revelation of which was to shock many of his party and give them the doubtful excuse to excise his legacy from theirs. So these memoirs are a little selective, maybe. But they are designed to make the British (and North American?) readers warm to the writer, and, by extension, to the political system which produced a benevolent-seeming and suave, academic Taoiseach, so different from the pronouncements of oral furnaces north of the Border.
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