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English-Speaking Peoples (12): Gladstone and Disraeli
23
Jan
2023
1
By Josh Hypes
By examining Gladstone and Disraeli, Churchill reminds us that even the most bitter political rivalries of the day can induce significant change if calibrated to a nation's interest. Politics is a contest where people choose the best candidate for the job. We could take these lessons to heart and seek prudence and guidance in the crises of our own day.
Churchill’s Novel “Savrola” (1): Polestar of a Statesman’s Philosophy
18
Feb
2021
By PATRICK J.C. POWERS
Savrola voices Churchill’s fundamental political and ethical principles at the very moment when he settled on them for the rest of his life.
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A.L. Rowse,
Anthony Hope,
Aristotle,
Arthur Schopenhauer,
Benjamin Disraeli,
Edward Bulwer-Lytton,
Edward Gibbon,
H. Rider Haggard,
J.E.C. Welldon,
Joseph Conrad,
Lady Randolph Churchill,
Munich crisis,
Patrick J.C. Powers,
Plato,
Savrola,
Socrates,
Thomas Babington Macaulay,
Winston S. Churchill,
Winston Churchill’s Statesmanship before the First World War, 1912-14
28
Aug
2020
By JOSHUA WAECHTER
Prudence, Aristotle’s primary quality of statesmen was well demonstrated by Churchill at the Admiralty in the years leading up to the First World War.
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Alfred von Tirpitz,
Aristotle,
Barbara Tuchman,
Battle of Jutland,
Benjamin Disraeli,
David Lloyd George,
Edward Grey,
First World War,
George Callaghan,
H.H. Asquith,
High Seas Fleet,
John Burns,
John Jellicoe,
John Morley,
Joshua Waechter,
Lord Salisbury,
Patrick Buchanan,
Royal Navy,
Triple Entente,
William Ewart Gladstone,
Winston S. Churchill,
How Randolph Churchill Began the Longest Biography in History
16
Apr
2020
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
Randolph Churchill’s career in journalism lasted thirty-six years. He wrote hundreds of articles, edited seven volumes of his father’s speeches, and published fifteen books, including the first seven narrative and document volumes of Winston S. Churchill, the official biography.