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“Mr. Churchill’s Profession: The Statesman as Author and the Book that Defined the ‘Special Relationship'” – by Peter Clarke
12
Jun
2015
The Timeless Value of Winston Churchill’s “The River War”
22
May
2015
By PAUL RAHE
There was a time, not so long ago, when the study of war, politics, and power was thought to be part and parcel of an undergraduate education. But today, programs in peace studies and in conflict resolution abound; rarely does anyone face up to the fact that conflicts quite often get resolved, and peace achieved, through the successful conduct of war.
Churchill on War: Part 3
14
May
2015
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Toward the end of his life, the old lion who had had implored, “never despair,” was himself gripped by melancholy. His despondence has been noted in varying degrees by critics and champions, historians and psychoanalysts, family and contemporaries. What was at the root of it?
“Surely Churchill Said That?” The Expanding Lexicon of the Fake Quote
26
Aug
2021
By Carlos Benito Marìn
Why invent a quote? Perhaps in the hope that “the specter of Winston will pause to embrace the willful quoter and smoke a cigar with him.”
What was the reason for Roosevelt’s antipathy toward de Gaulle?
23
Apr
2018
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“Marshall: The Man of the Age” – edited by Mark Stoler & Daniel Holt
08
Jul
2016
By PATRICK GARRITY
George Marshall’s stature among Americans of the mid-twentieth century is easily forgotten today. He had his critics—the MacArthur men in the Army and, later, some rabid anti-communists—but, in his role as Army Chief of Staff and principal military advisor to President Roosevelt, he was acclaimed as the “organizer of victory” in World War II. In his Nobel Lecture, he acknowledged his “inability to express myself with the power and penetration of the great Churchill.”
Churchill and the Presidents: Woodrow Wilson
05
Aug
2015
1
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Woodrow Wilson was the kind of president we Americans elect from time to time, out of idealism or sentiment or wishful thinking, who proves inexperienced or unqualified—who fails, as Churchill put it, to “rise to the level of events.” Biographer Arthur Link described Wilson as “a virtuoso and a spellbinder during a time when the American people admired oratory above all other political skills.” But he was a party, not a national, leader.