Tim Bell is founder and chairman of Bell Pottinger, one of, if not the most celebrated PR agencies in the UK today. Preferring to keep out of the limelight himself, he propelled Margaret Thatcher to stardom as a politician and prime minister. Among his numerous other celebrated clients have been the Saatchi brothers, with whom he also enjoys a close friendship. But the cast of characters in this book is truly astonishing from Reagan and de Klerk and Mandela to Harold Evans and William Rees-Mogg. Now for the first time he talks about his dealings with these people and what made them tick. Many people will find Tim Bell`s account of his business dealings compelling and instructive. But there is, under all this, a compelling human story. Like many creative geniuses Bell reveals in these memoirs that he has struggled all his life with serious bouts of depression a large black dog in his character. With people of this caliber there is most often a price to pay.Here is an entirely original and distinctive chronicle of our age.