Longmans, Don Mills, ON, 1968, 1^st.  Hard cover, 387 pages including Appendices and Index.  Maroon boards with black lettering on spine; light lower corner wear, spine ends bumped with small tear at top gutter edge; touch of soil near bottom fore edge; binding sound with a very slight lean.  Dust jacket has edge and cover wear, some tears and repaired tears on verso and some losses, toning, spine sunned; colour transfer onto verso.  Black & white frontis plate of Diefenbaker and Pearson; some pencilled numbers on rear pastedown; remainder of interior clean and unmarked.  Flat signed by author on title page.  Signed letter dated September 1969 from author to prior owner laid in.  ‘… not a gushing paean to John Diefenbaker.  It is a thoroughly researched examination of a man who aroused among Canadians of all political faiths more emotional devotion and reasoned hate, more intense curiosity and partisan argument than anyone on Parliament Hill since John A. Macdonald.’ (from front flap)