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Cita Stelzer Examines Churchill’s Hold on Americans—and Theirs on Him
01
Apr
2024
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
In 1895 Churchill wrote his brother: “This is a very great country, my dear Jack.” Cita Stelzer shows that he never changed his opinion. He thought America’s “gusts of friendliness...expansive gestures...hospitality and every form of kindness...meshed well with British “reserve and frigidity.... It is in the combination of these complementary virtues and resources that the brightest promise of the future dwells.” It did then. It should now.
Rhetoric: How Churchill Scaffolded His First Speech to Congress
19
Aug
2022
By RICHARD COHEN & RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
“The orator is the embodiment of the passions of the multitude. Before he can inspire them with any emotion he must be swayed by it himself. When he would rouse their indignation his heart is filled with anger. Before he can move their tears his own must flow. To convince them he must himself believe.” —WSC, “The Scaffolding of Rhetoric,”1897
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.