Gwynfor Evans : a portrait of a patriot

Gwynfor Evans propelled Welsh politics onto the UK stage in the second half of the twentieth century.

This award-winning biography of this iconic figure examines his complex character and dissects his personal and political relationships to reveal, for the first time, what drove Gwynfor Evans.

He was one of the rare politicians to have forced Margaret Thatcher to make a U-turn, when he threatened to starve to the point of suicide to campaign for a Welsh-language TV channel.He was also the winner of one of the most famous by-elections when he became Wales' first nationalist MP in 1966.

His leadership of the Welsh resistance against the flooding of Welsh valleys gained Plaid Cymru UK-wide publicity, and he is credited with paving the way for our post-devolution UK-politics.

In this compelling account of the man known to a generation of Welsh people as, simply, Gwynfor, Rhys Evans exposes the foundations of modern Wales and tells the story of one man and the way he helped mould the devolved UK.