It was said by contemporaries that when Winston Churchill was born he was blessed with imagination, eloquence, industry and ability, but denied judgement and wisdom. For much of his long political career he was detested and mistrusted, yet when he retired he was acclaimed as the "Saviour of his Country" and the "greatest Englishman of all time". How did this metamorphosis occur? Churchill's place in the pantheon of history is assured, yet through his story runs a tragic thread - how he came to preside over his country's ...
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It was said by contemporaries that when Winston Churchill was born he was blessed with imagination, eloquence, industry and ability, but denied judgement and wisdom. For much of his long political career he was detested and mistrusted, yet when he retired he was acclaimed as the "Saviour of his Country" and the "greatest Englishman of all time". How did this metamorphosis occur? Churchill's place in the pantheon of history is assured, yet through his story runs a tragic thread - how he came to preside over his country's decline. This theme is explored in a biography which covers all phases of Churchill's varied and turbulent career.
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Good in Good jacket. GC. Simon & Schuster, 1994. First edition-first printing. Brown hardback with laminated Dj cover(some creases and light shelf wear on the laminated Dj cover), both in VGC. Ex-library book with stamp, pocket, sticker but in GC. Illustrated with b/w photos. Nice and clean pages with two marks, ink marks and light shelf wear on the outer edges, two small marks/nicks on the edges of the first two pages of the book. The book is in VGC with light shelf wear.435pp including notes and references, bibliography and index. Price un-clipped. A collectable book. This is another paragraph Review: It's hard to write a bad biography of Churchill but even harder to find something new to say, and historian Rose (Hebrew Univ., Israel) doesn't find much. He is, however, particularly good on his subject's personality: Of course I am an egotist, Churchill once told Clement Attlee. Where do you get if you aren't? Self-centered, frequently bombastic, living in great houses, surrounded by masses of servants, he was saved from some of the worst effects of this self-indulgence by his sense of humor: When his faithful assistant, Eddie Marsh, told him that he favored kissing [Uncle Sam] on both cheeks, Churchill replied, But not on all four. Rose is also perceptive on the politician's relationship with his wife, Clementine, which was somewhat more complicated than is usually supposed. While it was a love match, both sometimes felt the need to get away from each other, and her judgment, both political and personal, was frequently better than his. On some substantive matters, Rose is neglectful of recent research, offering less than satisfactory coverage of Churchill's role as a social reformer, his choice of the Board of Trade as his first Cabinet post, his more intricate political calculations, and his success in becoming more acceptable to the Labor Party before WW II-about which a number of authors have written well in the past few years. The last omission in particular leads the author to make an assertion that would be rejected by many historians of the period, namely that the Earl of Halifax could have become prime minister in 1940 if he had wanted to. Rose responds persuasively, however, to the recent charge that Churchill mined Britain by refusing to make a compromise peace with Hitler, a suggestion that depends on a reliability that Hitler was never inclined to demonstrate. Sifts the old soil quite pleasantly, but doesn't break new ground.
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Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes Very good hardcover in worn and little edge-torn dust jacket. Prior owner's bookplate on front free endpaper. Minor markings and marginalia.
