Tony Blair The Making of a World Leader Author:Philip Stephens On March 27, 2003, President George W. Bush said, "America has learned a lot about Tony Blair over the last weeks . . . and were proud to have him as a friend." Despite the Presidents assertion, the average American knows little about Tony Blair except that he remained one of Americas strongest allies in the war on terror and, ... more »ultimately, in the war against Iraq. But why? What is Blairs agenda? Is he just trying to further Englands cause or his own? And how has this man, the youngest British prime minister in centuries, kept strong ties with such fundamentally different presidents as Clinton and Bush? Philip Stephenseditor of the UK edition of the Financial Times and a man who has known Blair since the beginning of his careeranswers for the first time these questions for the American public. Stephens follows the emerging world leader from his boyhood to his leadership of the Labor party and, along the way, exposes his beliefs, his personality, his shortcomings and contradictions, and his role in shaping a new international order.« less