Great Contemporaries: Churchill Reflects on FDR, Hitler, Kipling, Chaplin, Balfour, and Other Giants of His Age

by Winston S. Churchill

Overview

GREAT CONTEMPORARIES is a collection of essays about 21 men whom Winston S. Churchill felt contributed to the course of the world in which he lived. The central theme is a group of British statesmen who shone in the late 1800s and early in this century--Blafour, Chamberlain, Rosebery, Morley, Asquith and Curzon.

Others whose acquaintance we make through Churchill's eyes include George Bernard Shaw, Hindenburg, Lawrence of Arabia, Marshall Foch, Leon Trotsky, Phillip Snowden, Clemenceaus and King George V.

Churchill's long acquaintance with world leaders gave him a unique perspective from which to view actors on the international stage. His assessments sparkle, as do his own qualities, which glow warmly out from these portraits." (Publisher's Source)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781931313704
Publisher:	Simon Publications
Publication date:	04/01/2001
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	296
Sales rank:	166,532
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) served twice as prime minister of the United Kingdom, held numerous political and cabinet positions, fought in wars on four continents, and wrote more than forty books. In 1953 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
 
About the Editor
James W. Muller, professor of political science at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, is academic chairman of the Churchill Centre, a by-fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and a recipient of the Farrow Award for Excellence in Churchill Studies. He is the editor of Winston Churchill’s Thoughts and Adventures, also available from ISI Books.

Table of Contents

	Preface	v
	The Earl of Rosebery	3
	The Ex-Kaiser	21
	George Bernard Shaw	33
	Joseph Chamberlain	41
	Sir John French	57
	John Morley	71
	Hindenburg	85
	Herbert Henry Asquith	97
	Lawrence of Arabia	113
	'F. E.' First Earl of Birkenhead	127
	Marshal Foch	141
	Alfonso XIII	149
	Douglas Haig	161
	Arthur James Balfour	173
	Hitler and his Choice, 1935	195
	George Nathaniel Curzon	205
	Philip Snowden	221
	Clemenceau	229
	King George V	245
	Lord Fisher and his Bioorapher	257
	Charles Stewart Parnell	267
	'B.-P.'	283

Editorial Reviews

The original edition of this collection of articles was published in 1937 (Thornton Butterworth); subsequent editions appeared in 1936 (with four new articles, including a portrait of FDR) and in 1943 (in which articles on Trotsky and Roosevelt were omitted for political reasons). This first American edition makes available Churchill's eloquent and personal observations on 25 prominent people of the era. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

“By far the most important, thoughtful edition of Churchill’s famous personality sketches ever published . . . The indispensable ‘desert island’ text for any marooned Churchillian.”
—Finest Hour
 

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