Great Contemporaries, 1937
- ISBN-10
- 079534967X
- ISBN-13
- 9780795349676
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 504
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-07-05
- Publisher
- Rosetta Books
- Author
- Winston S. Churchill
Description
Insightful biographical sketches of major historical figures of the twentieth century, from the incomparable British statesman. Winston S. Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of “his mastery of historical and biographical description.” Nowhere is that mastery more evident than in Great Contemporaries—which features Churchill’s profiles of many of the major figures of his time. These short biographies cover political and cultural personalities ranging from Franklin D. Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Lawrence of Arabia, and Leon Trotsky to Charlie Chaplin, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, and George Bernard Shaw. This edition includes five previously uncollected essays and a number of photographs, plus an enlightening introduction and annotations by noted Churchill scholar James W. Muller. Written in the decade before Churchill became prime minister, these essays focus on the challenges of statecraft at a time when the democratic revolution was toppling older regimes based on tradition and aristocratic privilege. Churchill’s keen observations take on new importance in our own age of roiling political change. Ultimately, Great Contemporaries provides fascinating insight into these subjects as Churchill approaches them with a measuring eye, finding their limitations at least as revealing as their merits.
Get the book
Similar books
-
Great Contemporaries
By Winston ChurchillThe original edition of this collection of articles was published in 1937 (Thornton Butterworth); subsequent editions appeared in 1936 (with four new articles, including a portrait of FDR) and in...
-
Great Contemporaries [Revised Edition]
By Sir Winston ChurchillThis is a collection of 25 short biographical essays about famous people, written and published by Winston Churchill before his first tenure as Britain’s Prime Minister from 1940-1945.
-
Great Contemporaries: Churchill Reflects on FDR, Hitler, Kipling, Chaplin, Balfour, and Other Giants of His Age
By Winston ChurchillOriginally published: London: Butterworth, 1937.
-
Great Contemporaries
By Winston ChurchillThe original edition of this collection of articles was published in 1937 (Thornton Butterworth); subsequent editions appeared in 1936 (with four new articles, including a portrait of FDR) and in 1943 (in which articles on Trotsky and ...
-
Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
By Patrick J. BuchananAmong the British and Churchillian errors were: • The secret decision of a tiny cabal in the inner Cabinet in 1906 to take Britain straight to war against Germany, should she invade France • The vengeful Treaty of Versailles that ...
-
Delphi Complete Works of Winston S. Churchill (Illustrated)
By Winston S. Churchill... Complete Works Thomas Carlyle Collected Work DELPHI CLASSICS Ilerodotus Complete Work DERIC CLARICE Edward Gibbon Complete Work Explore our past ... HISTORY AT DELPHI DELPHI CLASSICS Theodore Roosevelt Complete Works BarTena DELPHI ...
-
Star Maker
By Olaf Stapledonman Empire; and the government of Germany called itself the Third Reich (empire). 12. In March 1936, after his political views were criticized in a letter to the Liverpool Daily Post by Professor Alan Dorward of Liverpool University, ...
-
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
By Madeleine Albright. More than a memoir, this is a book of facts and action, a chronicle of a war in progress from a partisan faithful to the idea of Czechoslovakian democracy.” -- Los Angeles Times Drawn from her own memory, her parents’ written ...
-
The Unrelenting Struggle
By Winston S. ChurchillThis stunning second volume of wartime speeches and broadcasts from the Nobel Prize–winning prime minister captures the troubled early days of WWII.
-
Delphi Collected Works of Winston S. Churchill (Illustrated)
By Winston S. Churchill... DELPHI CLASSICS T. E. Lawrence Complete Works Series Thirteen DELPHI CLASSICI DELMIL CLASSICS DELPHI CLASSICS Ilerodotus Complete Work DERIC CLARICE Edward Gibbon Complete Work Explore our past ... HISTORY AT DELPHI DELPHI CLASSICS ...