Himself Alone: David Trimble and the Ordeal Of UnionismThe comprehensive and groundbreaking biography of the Nobel Peace Prize winning politician, one of the most influential and important men in Irish political history. How did David Trimble, the bte noire of Irish nationalism and bien pensant opinion, transform himself into a peacemaker? How did this unfashionable, petit bourgeois Orangeman come to win a standing ovation at the Labour Party conference? How, indeed, did this taciturn academic with few