A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence

When this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography first appeared in 1976 it rescued T. E. Lawrence from the mythologizing that had seemed to be his fate. In it John Mack humanely and objectively explores the relationship between Lawrences inner life and his historically significant actions. Extensive interviews far-flung correspondence access to War Office dispatches and unpublished letters provide the basis for Macks sensitive investigation of the psychiatric dimensions of Lawrences personality. In addition Mack examines the pertinent history politics and sociology of the time in order to weigh the real forces with which Lawrence contended and which impinged upon him.