Customer Reviews
Thorough, balanced, very good... but not an all time great - By: Ch0pski, 08 Jan 2008 
This is a very readable book - I enjoyed it & chomped my way through itin no time at all. (Bite sizes structure made it splendid reading on the looin fact!).
Seldon has clearly had great access to Blair's advisors, though it's a bit light on new material from Blair's politician peers. There's a lot lifted from autobiographies from people like Campbell & Blunkett.
Analysis of issues is strong: very balanced & concise.
But - other than the marvelous blow by blow section on how Blair & his team handled the 7/7 bombings - the book a bit short on the human interest details that could have made this a really great book.
As it stands it's well worth a read for people interestedin general modern UK politics, or those wishing to gain an insightin to the machinations of life inside Number 10 during the second half of the Blair years.
The best book on Blair yet, if not ever. - By: Hester Bertish, 23 Dec 2007 
Judging by the footnotes, this book has been meticulously researched. The author evidently had access to Blair's advisors & close team. More of his witnesess are civil servants than politicians. As a result, it is actually a very balanced analysis. The reviews below miss this point, & are both clearly anti-Blair. This book isn't written to verbally bash the man. There is no reason for the author to be biased. He sets outs the facts, as reported by those close to the key events, & lets the reader interpret & judge the man, rather than the author doing it himself. This surely is the purpose of all contemporary biography. Let us leave it to future historians to decide this man's placein British & world politics.
