Churchill: A Biography - Brossura

Jenkins, Roy

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ISBN 10: 0452283523 ISBN 13: 9780452283527

Casa editrice: Plume, 2002

Riassunto

A comprehensive portrait of Britain's greatest modern prime minister and icon of modern history chronicles his many accomplishments, trials, and tribulations, both personal and political, that contributed to his great success as an invaluable leader. Reprint.

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"From Roy Jenkins's masterly biography, we emerge marveling at the manifold gifts that informed Churchill's genius for leadership."—Harold Evans, New York Times Book Review

"One might wonder whether anything fresh remains to be said about Winston Churchill, but Roy Jenkins uniquely combines the skills of a master biographer with the insights of a practical politician and draws a fresh portrait of the great Englishman with authority, elegance, and wit. This is far and away Churchill's best one-volume biography."—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

"This is a splendid addition to Churchillian lore, a chronicle full of revealing personal anecdotes, delightful wartime vignettes, and fascinating new insights into the critical 1939-1945 years."—Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

“Wryly astute... shrewd.”—The Washington Post
 
“Jenkins catches Churchill’s studied self-inspection with the sure-shot sharpness of an expert portraitist.”—Simon Schama, The New York Review of Books
 
“Churchill stands forth with Shakespearean bravura as the necessary hero for the most testing moment of national (and world) crisis. A satisfying summation of an unsurpassed life.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune 

L'autore

Roy Jenkins was the author of 18 books, including Gladstone, which won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. Active in British politics for half a century, he entered the House of Commons in 1948 and subsequently served as Minister of Aviation, Home Secretary, and Chancellor of the Exchequer; he was also the President of the European Commission and Chancellor of Oxford University. He died in 2003.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Plume
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0452283523
• ISBN 13: 9780452283527
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 1024