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Author Churchill, Winston S

Title Great Contemporaries : Essays and Other Works
Published Newburyport : RosettaBooks, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (470 pages)
Contents Intro; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Editor's Note on This Edition; 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 AfarH. G. Wells; Charlie Chaplin; Kitchener of Khartoum; King Edward; Rudyard Kipling; Notes; Acknowledgments
Summary Insightful biographical sketches of major historical figures of the twentieth century, from the incomparable British statesman. Winston 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 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
Notes Print version record
Subject Biography -- 20th century.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
Biography
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056608
Europe -- Biography
Subject Europe
Great Britain
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780795349676
079534967X