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Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill : A Brief Account of a Long Life
Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill A Brief Account of a Long Life
Author: Gretchen Rubin
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 Wins...  more » 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 English language, he was a bore.

In crisp, energetic language, Rubin creates a new form for presenting a great figure of history—and brings to full realization the depiction of a man too fabulous for any novelist to construct, too complicated for even the longest narrative to describe, and too valuable ever to be forgotten.



ISBN-13: 9780345450470
ISBN-10: 0345450477
Publication Date: 6/3/2003
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Ballantine Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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