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PUBLISHED
New York : Viking, 2009
DESCRIPTION
181 pages : portraits ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780670021055 (alk. paper), 0670021059 (alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Young thruster -- Liberal statesman -- The lessons of failure -- Success and disasters -- The unregarded prophet -- Supreme power and frustration -- Glorious twilight
Acclaimed historian Paul Johnson shows how Churchill's immense adaptability combined with his natural pugnacity to make him a formidable leader for the better part of a century. Rich with anecdote and quotation, Johnson's narrative illustrates the British statesman's humor, resilience, courage, and eccentricity as no other biography before