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Search - Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry 1874-1915

Churchill Young Man in a Hurry 18741915
Author: Ted Morgan

Unfolding with vivid intimacy and a wealth of detail never before available, Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry, is not a conventional biography -- of which there have been many -- but the intimate account of how one of the most important and complex figures of our century was formed. The author has woven together the psychological, famili... more »al, social, and historical background to narrate the fascinating story of the young Churchill, without which it is impossible to understand the achievements of the later years. Morgan has drawn on a wealth of archival documents to present a new account of the early decades that is as remarkable for its candor as it is for its refusal to subscribe to conventional wisdom.

This book follows Churchill's early life from his boyhood though his dazzling political ascent to his first political failure at the age of forty. Although he was born into one of the most powerful families in England -- his grandfather was the seventh Duke of Marlborough, his father a leading conservative politician, and his mother the beautiful socialite Jennie Jerome -- Churchill's future was prophesied by his father as that of "a social wastrel."

His ambition and arrogance became apparent during his military training, where he seized every opportunity for glory, and during his early career in Parliament, where he betrayed his social class by leaving the Tories for the Liberal Party. To many, Churchill would always bear the mark of an outcast, an unprincipled overachiever who would never play the game like a gentleman. He proved, however, that his gifts were equal to his ambition, and he was eventually named First Lord of the Admiralty. But the disastrous Dardanelles expedition in 1915, which Churchill championed, led to his dismissal. His career apparently shattered, the former M.P. and Cabinet Minister left England for France to fight in the trenches.

Illuminating every aspect of his subject's rise to power, Morgan takes the reader into Cabinet meetings, the House of Commons, and into the minds of Churchill and his colleagues; and he recreates the statesman's more personal moments -- sharing a language of love with his wife, boasting that he would be Prime Minister before he was forty, wading through periods of elation and despair. These were the crucible years during which Churchill's character was formed: already apparent was the man who never surrendered, and who would lead England through World War II. Churchill: Young Man in a Hurry shows how Churchill's life was so fused with the events of his time that, even in the early years of achievement and failure, to miss a single day is to miss a page of history in the making.

ISBN-13: 9780671253035
ISBN-10: 0671253034
Publication Date: 6/15/1982
Pages: 607
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Biographies & Memoirs >> Leaders & Notable People >> U.K. Prime Ministers >> Churchill, Winston
Biographies & Memoirs >> People, A-Z >> ( C ) >> Churchill, Winston
History >> Europe >> England

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