A few months ago, few had heard much about mild-mannered backbench MP Jeremy Corbyn. Now he is the surprise leader of the Labour Party, after winning a grassroots campaign of startling relevance and dignity. Yet who is this man of apparent integrity and left-leaning views, who divides his own party, the media, and Britain in general. Is he a world statesman in waiting, an inadvertant party wrecker, another Neil Kinnock - or perhaps, more importantly, a new kind of politician, one who no longer plays the rules of spin but says it like it is? W. Stephen Gilbert has crafted a brief, lucid and compellingly readable study of the man and the politician we will all be talking about for years to come.