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Josh Ireland Offers a Vibrant Account of Father and Son
05
Jul
2021
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Josh Ireland begins with potted inaccuracies, but the quickly picks up with a deft, thoughtful account of a short, bittersweet saga.
Great Contemporaries: Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman
05
Jan
2021
3
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Pamela Harriman, said Jacques Chirac, was “elegance itself...a peerless diplomat.” That old Francophile, her father-in-law, would have smiled.
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Tracking Churchill’s Famous Slogan, “You can always take one with you”
03
Apr
2020
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
I have often wondered however what would have happened if two hundred thousand German storm troops had actually established themselves ashore. The massacre would have been on both sides grim and great. There would have been neither mercy nor quarter. They would have used Terror, and we were prepared to go all lengths. I intended to use the slogan “You can always take one with you.” - Winston Churchill
Poor, Dear Randolph: An Appreciation of Churchill’s Son
15
Nov
2017
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
He combined two qualities: generous loyalty to those he loved, and an acid tongue and pen for those he didn’t. Most of the latter, I tend to think, richly deserved what they got. Randolph Churchill’s public persona was based on the latter quality. In the mid-1950s, surgery revealed that a tumor on his lung was benign. His friend Evelyn Waugh burst into the bar at White’s Club: “They’ve cut out the only part of Randolph that isn’t malignant!”