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Few leaders in history have been as mythologized as Michael Collins. Before his death at 31, he had fought in the Easter Rising, organized the IRA and out-spied British intelligence, negotiated the Anglo-Irish Treaty, and run the first independent government in Ireland. Peter Hart’s groundbreaking biography restores humanity to this mythical figure. Drawing on previously unknown sources, delving into Collins’s pre-revolutionary past, and assessing the methods—and the costs—of his rise to power, Mick reveals a man of often ruthless ambition, more politician than soldier, whose friendships went no farther than his interests. A work as thrilling as it is authoritative.

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A triumph . . . Insights abound . . . Reads like a le Carre thriller. ( The Irish Book Review )<br><br>This is the book that will unquestionably be the starting point for all future reflections on Collins. ( The New Republic )<br><br>[Hart] succeeds in demystifying a legend. ( The Boston Sunday Globe )<br><br>A fine biography . . . written with immense verve. ( The New York Times Book Review )<br><br>

A triumph . . . Insights abound . . . Reads like a le Carre thriller. ( The Irish Book Review ) This is the book that will unquestionably be the starting point for all future reflections on Collins. ( The New Republic ) [Hart] succeeds in demystifying a legend. ( The Boston Sunday Globe ) A fine biography . . . written with immense verve. ( The New York Times Book Review )

A triumph . . . Insights abound . . . Reads like a le Carre thriller. (The Irish Book Review) This is the book that will unquestionably be the starting point for all future reflections on Collins. (The New Republic) [Hart] succeeds in demystifying a legend. (The Boston Sunday Globe) A fine biography . . . written with immense verve. (The New York Times Book Review)

A triumph . . . Insights abound . . . Reads like a le Carr? thriller. ( The Irish Book Review )

A triumph . . . Insights abound . . . Reads like a le CarrA(c) thriller. ( The Irish Book Review )

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Peter Hart is the Canada Research Chair of Irish Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland and the author of The I.R.A. and Its Enemies (winner of the ChristopherEwart-Biggs Memorial Prize) and two other books on modern Irish history.

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