Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a

Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life

Warrior and writer, genius and crank, rider in the British cavalryâ€™s last great charge and inventor of the tankâ€”Winston Churchill led Britain to fight alone against Nazi Germany in the fateful year of 1940 and set the standard for leading a democracy at war.

Like no other portrait of its famous subject, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill is a dazzling display of facts more improbable than fiction, and an investigation of the contradictions and complexities that haunt biography. Gretchen Craft Rubin gives readers, in a single volume, the kind of rounded view usually gained only by reading dozens of conventional biographies.

With penetrating insight and vivid anecdotes, Rubin makes Churchill accessible and meaningful to twenty-first-century readers with forty contrasting views of the man: he was an alcoholic, he was not; he was an anachronism, he was a visionary; he was a racist, he was a humanitarian; he was the most quotable man in the history of the English language, he was a bore.

In crisp, energetic language, Rubin creates a new form for presenting a great figure of historyâ€”and brings to full realization the depiction of a man too fabulous for any novelist to construct, too complicated for even the longest narrative to describe, and too valuable ever to be forgotten.
Country USA
Brand Ballantine Books
Manufacturer Ballantine Books
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 0345450477_gdd_341
ReleaseDate 2003-06-03
EANs 9780345450470

Country	USA
Brand	Ballantine Books
Manufacturer	Ballantine Books
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	0345450477_gdd_341
ReleaseDate	2003-06-03
EANs	9780345450470

Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life

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