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Bourke Cockran: “Becoming Churchill” Becomes Better
10
Apr
2023
By GREGORY BELL SMITH
“I have never seen his like, or in some respects his equal. With his enormous head, gleaming eyes and flexible countenance, he looked uncommonly like the portraits of Charles James Fox. It was not my fortune to hear any of his orations, but his conversation, in point, in pith, in rotundity, in antithesis, and in comprehension, exceeded anything I have ever heard.” —Winston Churchill on Bourke Cockran
“Getting to Know You”: First Dinners with Winston Churchill
14
Jul
2022
By CITA STELZER
Recently I wondered: How did Churchill introduce himself at first dinners with key people? What were the reactions of those at his table who had never met him before? Here are a few. They tell us much about the man.
“Winston Churchill: A Life in the News,” by Richard Toye
07
Dec
2020
2
By MICHAEL MCMENAMIN
Churchill and the media is a larger story than author Toye tells, and the omissions are as disappointing as the assertions are disconcerting.
Which Historical and Contemporary Figures were Churchill’s Inspirations?
16
Mar
2020
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
These are just a few of the classical authors Churchill read in his self-education as a young man. They form an adjunct to the more recent and direct inspirations, the figures of more recent centuries.
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Andrew Roberts,
Aristotle,
Bourke Cockran,
Cicero,
Duke of Marlborough,
Georges Clemenceau,
Great Contemporaries,
Horatio Nelson,
John Morley,
Justin Lyons,
Leo Strauss,
Lord Randolph Churchill,
Napoleon,
Paul Rahe,
Plato,
Richard M. Langworth,
Shakespeare,
Socrates,
Thucydides,
War of Spanish Succession,
Winston S. Churchill,
Xenophon,
Great Contemporaries: William Bourke Cockran, the Great Mentor
24
Feb
2016
By FRED GLUECKSTEIN
Churchill’s capacious memory was well stocked with phrases he first heard from Bourke Cockran. “The earth is a generous mother” was the best known, but Churchill also recited his most basic beliefs in Cockran’s words.