A hugely admired, and Pulitzer prize-winning, biography which concentrates on the relationship between Lawrence's inner life and the actions and events which grew out of them. It is easy to warm to a biographer who, while drawing on his training as a psychiatrist, is never deceived into thinking that theory can 'explain' his Lawrence. The more Mack discovered about the social contexts of Lawrence's actions and the demands on a public man, the more he understood Lawrence's psychology. The result is a resounding confirmation of this approach to his subject.
   --Desmond Christy, The Guardian

We are not likely to get as thorough and judicious a biography of T. E. Lawrence for some time.
   --New York Times Book Review

A great book which honors its subject, its form, and its author.
   --Boston Sunday Globe

Mack's handling of this information is a model of sensitive psychoanalytical expertise.
   --Newsweek

Takes us closer to the core of Lawrence than any previous biography.
   --Time

Unlike many 'psycho-biographies', this was written by a trained psychologist who had also done his biographer's homework: it remains the best biography of T.E. Lawrence.
   --Contemporary Review

John Mack, M.D., was Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Founding Director of the Center for Psychology and Social Change, Cambridge, Massachusetts.