Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life
✍ Scribed by Rubin, Gretchen
- Book ID
- 109680810
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781588363848
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Warrior and writer, genius and crank, rider in the British cavalry's last great charge and inventor of the tank--Winston Churchill led Britain to fight alone against Nazi Germany in the fateful year of 1940 and set the standard for leading a democracy at war.
Like no other portrait of its famous subject, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill is a dazzling display of facts more improbable than fiction, and an investigation of the contradictions and complexities that haunt biography. Gretchen Craft Rubin gives readers, in a single volume, the kind of rounded view usually gained only by reading dozens of conventional biographies.
With penetrating insight and vivid anecdotes, Rubin makes Churchill accessible and meaningful to twenty-first-century readers with forty contrasting views of the man: he was an alcoholic, he was not; he was an anachronism, he was a visionary; he was a racist, he was a humanitarian; he was the most quotable man in the history of the...
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