The SDP promised to break the mould of British Politics. But, after seven turbulent years, it dissolved amidst acrimony and bitter in-fighting. Ivor Crewe and Anthony King, Britains best-known political commentators, chart for the first time the extraordinary story of the early success and ultimate demise of the SDP.
Our two professors ... write clearly, sometimes wittily and without academic jargon. They are masters of their material.
Douglas Hurd, Daily Telegraph