Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long LifeRandom House Publishing Group, 11 de maig 2004 - 336 pàgines A WALL STREET JOURNAL SUMMER PICK A WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER Warrior and writer, genius and crank, rider in the British cavalry’s last great charge and inventor of the tank, 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. With penetrating insight and vivid anecdotes, Gretchen Rubin makes Churchill accessible and meaningful to twenty-first-century readers by analyzing the many 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. 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. It brings to full realization the depiction of a man too fabulous for any novelist to construct, too complex for even the longest narrative to describe, and too significant ever to be forgotten. |
Continguts
Introduction | 1 |
Heroic View | 11 |
Critical View | 20 |
Whom He Knew | 33 |
Suited to High Office? | 42 |
His Greatest Strength | 46 |
His Exact Words | 55 |
Metonymy | 69 |
A Happy Marriage? | 152 |
His Myth | 156 |
How He Changed Through Time | 161 |
The Imagined and the Real | 171 |
How He Saw Himself | 178 |
His Cause | 186 |
How He Saw the World | 195 |
Friends as Well as Allies? | 198 |
In a Single Word | 74 |
His Motive | 77 |
The Black Dog? | 82 |
His Dominant Quality | 86 |
His Defining Characteristic | 92 |
Key Events | 98 |
His Most Formative Role | 103 |
A Good Parent? | 109 |
His Favorite Pastime | 113 |
A Weakness | 119 |
How Others Saw Him | 124 |
Telling Detail | 131 |
An Alcoholic? | 136 |
Facts at a Glance | 139 |
Too Interesting to Ignore | 147 |
How He Saw History | 202 |
Nemesis | 211 |
Missing Information Supplied | 221 |
Challenged Assumptions | 226 |
The Meaning of His Life | 234 |
A Likeness | 242 |
How He Died | 246 |
Judgment | 250 |
Epitaph | 254 |
Notes | 257 |
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Acknowledgments | 299 |
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