Heroes & Contemporaries

Jonathan Aitken brings his personal knowledge to bear combining personal insights, anecdotes and historical judgments on some of the most important figures of the last century. Aitken has written perceptive profiles of an array of key people, commenting on strengths and flaws. There are also portraits of Aitken's own political contemporaries - Michael Portillo and Margaret Thatcher - and of past figures such as Winston Churchill and Harold Wilson.