Great Contemporaries
Churchill Reflects on FDR, Hitler, Kipling, Chaplin, Balfour, and Other Giants of His Age
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 28 November 2024
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350448759
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages520 pages
- Size 234x156x30 mm
- Weight 760 g
- Language English 607
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Long description:
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Winston S. Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature for ""his mastery of historical and biographical description."" Nowhere is that mastery more evident than in Great Contemporaries, first published in 1937.
Written in the decade before Churchill became prime minister, these portraits of notable figures of his age offer wisdom for our own. With keen observations and telling anecdotes, Churchill points out what he learned from them about greatness and also their limitations. His subjects range from Franklin Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Lawrence of Arabia, and Leon Trotsky to Charlie Chaplin, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, and George Bernard Shaw.
Published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Churchill's birth, this is the most complete edition, including five additional essays, more than thirty photographs, with a new foreword and annotations by Churchill scholar James W. Muller. This volume revives Churchill's unmatched insights and unforgettable prose for a new generation of readers.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Editor's Note
Preface
The Earl of Rosebery
The Ex-Kaiser
George Bernard Shaw
Joseph Chamberlain
Sir John French
John Morley
Hindenburg
Boris Savinkov
Herbert Henry Asquith
Lawrence of Arabia
'F. E.' First Earl of Birkenhead
Marshal Foch
Leon Trotsky, alias Bronstein
Alfonso XIII
Douglas Haig
Arthur James Balfour
Hitler and His Choice
George Nathaniel Curzon
Philip Snowden
Clemenceau
King George V
Lord Fisher and His Biographer
Charles Stewart Parnell
'B.-P.'
Roosevelt from Afar
Additional Essays in this Edition:
H. G. Wells
Charlie Chaplin
Kitchener of Khartoum
King Edward VIII
Rudyard Kipling
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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