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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,
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,