num_pages: 336
description: A WALL STREET JOURNAL SUMMER PICKA WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLERWarrior 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 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.
language: English
title: Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life
titlecomplete: Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life
genres: Politics, Historical, Biography, World War I, War, Nonfiction, British Literature, History, World War II, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 1049
publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks