This is a very readable autobiography. In the book Michael Yeats provides an intimate portrait of his childhood life and especially his relationship with his father, W.B. Yeats, and then his subsequent life in politics.
This memoir provides a very useful account of the Yeats family with their family life and relationship with their high-profile father particularly highlighted. The remaining two thirds of the book describe the motivation that led Michael to join Fianna Fáil and how his subsequent political career developed.
As a Protestant and a graduate of Trinity College he was an atypical recruit but was an admirer of Eamon de Valera, who his father had not been.
He would serve for many years in the Irish Seanad, and for a time as Cathaoirleach, and also in the European Parliament when Ireland entered the EEC.