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Books
Churchill’s Confidant: Enemy to Lifelong Friend, by Richard Steyn
28
Jun
2019
By TERRY REARDON
Among many close personal friendships that Churchill enjoyed in political and military life, one of the more unlikely was with a former foe, the South African statesman Jan Christian Smuts. Richard Steyn has offered a plethora of new information and insights in a readable account of this important friendship.
“Churchill: The Statesman as Artist,” by David Cannadine
17
Jun
2019
By ANTOINE CAPET
“Churchill was not a great artist, but he was a very accomplished painter,” states Cannadine in this study of Churchill’s art through his and others’ writings.
“Winston Churchill on Politics as Friendship,” by John von Heyking
06
Jun
2019
2
By BRADLEY P. TOLPPANEN
Von Heyking offers an interesting scholarly work that places Churchill’s many political friendships within a philosophical grounding.
Man of the Century: “Walking with Destiny,” by Andrew Roberts
31
May
2019
By LARRY P. ARNN
In the best biography since 1991, Roberts's witty, fluent, flowing prose captures the adventure, energy, and incessant movement that Churchill produced.
Two Views of Churchill’s Relationship with Clement Attlee
28
May
2019
“How Churchill Waged War,” by Allen Packwood
23
May
2019
By TERRY REARDON
The director of the Churchill Archives Center examines Churchill’s decision-making methods on challenges and problems of the Second World War.
Liberty and Taxation: Churchill, George and The People’s Rights, Part 2
21
Mar
2019
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Henry George was a hero to the Progressives, yet he, like Churchill, wished to preserve individual liberty through fairer methods of taxation.
“Churchill: His Radical Decade” by Malcolm Hill
21
Mar
2019
Editions Le Sphinx: A Fine Illustrated Edition of Churchill’s War Memoirs
21
Mar
2019
1
By ANTOINE CAPET
Sphinx editors in Brussels were steeped in the war as Churchill described it. Their volumes offer a splendid collection of wartime photographs.
Henry George and Churchill’s “The People’s Rights”: Part 1
20
Mar
2019
2
By ANDREW MACLAREN
Attracted by the works of Henry George, the young Churchill asked: Can justice only be achieved at the expense of individual liberty?
“Churchill: Military Genius or Menace?” by Stephen Napier
11
Mar
2019
By TERRY REARDON
The first key to sales is an intriguing title and Mr. Napier succeeds admirably in that regard. But a reader expecting the “goods” will be rather surprised that the preamble and first chapter praise Churchill’s warnings of the need to rearm in the face of Nazi Germany, and his condemnation of the Munich Agreement. Napier then adds several straightforward chapters covering the early days of the war and Churchill becoming prime minister.
Savrola: Churchill’s Novel and Its Most Beautiful Appearance
28
Jan
2019
6
By ANTOINE CAPET
Many students of his canon consider that the hero is Churchill as he liked to imagine himself then. An appreciator of beauty and fine living, Savrola cannot live "in dreamy quiet and philosophic calm in some beautiful garden, far from the noise of men" while the life of the nation is at stake. "'Vehement, high and daring,' was his cast of mind. The life he lived was the only one he could ever live; he must go on to the end." Forty years later the novelist would exhort his countrymen: "We shall go on to the end....We shall never surrender."