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Churchill Sizes Up the Giants of His Age, Offers Wisdom for Our Own Winston Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on the strength of \u201chis mastery of historical and biographical description.\u201d Nowhere is that mastery more evident than in Great Contemporaries(1937), which features Churchill\u2019s brief lives of those he called \u201cGreat Men of our age.\u201d ISI Books is proud to publish a brand-new, illustrated edition of this neglected classic. Great Contemporaries profiles towering figures ranging from Franklin Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Lawrence of Arabia, and Leon Trotsky to Charlie Chaplin, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, and George Bernard Shaw. This edition—the first in twenty years—includes five essays that have never appeared in any previous version, some thirty black-and-white photographs, and an enlightening introduction and annotations by noted Churchill scholar James W. Muller. Written in the decade before Churchill became prime minister, the essays in Great Contemporaries focus on the challenges of statecraft at a time when the democratic revolution was toppling older regimes based on tradition and aristocratic privilege. Churchill\u2019s keen observations take on new importance in our own age of roiling political change. Ultimately, Great Contemporaries provides fascinating insight into the statesman\u2019s perspective. Churchill\u2019s objective is clear: he tries to learn from these giants what makes a man great. He approaches his subjects with a measuring eye, finding their limitations at least as revealing as their merits. This handsome new edition of Great Contemporaries brings back Churchill\u2019s unmatched insights and unforgettable prose for a new generation of readers and leaders.
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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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Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) has been called by historians "the man of the twentieth century." Prime Minister of Great Britain (1940-1945), Churchill won the Nobel prize for literature in 1953.
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- PublisherUniv of Chicago Pr
- Publication date1974
- ISBN 10 0226106306
- ISBN 13 9780226106304
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