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Titolo: [un po' OT] Biografia di Wiston Churchill

Salve a tutti,
qualcuno ha da consigliarmi una buona biografia di Wiston Churchill? Va
bene sia in italiano che in inglese.
Grazie
Ale
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*La sconfitta reclama ad alta voce perche' esige spiegazioni; mentre la
vittoria, come la carita', nasconde un gran numero di peccati*
Alfred T. Mahan

Io ho  "Churchill: un duro a morire" di Lord Moran, edito dalla Mondadori
negli anni 60. Lord Moran era il suo medico personale.
Andrea

 negli anni 60. Lord Moran era il suo medico personale.
Grazie dell'indicazione, ma preferirei qualcosa di piu' recente e,
soprattutto, di piu' *storico* e meno memorialistico.
Ciao
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Alessandro Santini
1. M.Gilbert, "Churchill", Mondadori 1997 - Molto buono, scritto da un
autore che fu uno dei primi ad avere accesso completo agli archivi personali
di Churchill. Può essere considerata la biografia "ufficiale" dello statista
britannico (E' uscito in prima edizione in inglese nel 1988)
2. A.Spinosa, "Churchill. Il nemico degli Italiani", Mondadori 2001 -
Divulgativo. Tratta quasi solamente del rapporto Mussolini/Churchill
3a. W.Manchester, "Churchill, solitudine (1932-1938)", Frassinelli 1989
3b. W.Manchester, "Churchill, l'ultimo leone (1938-1940). Il vortice"
Frassinelli 1991
Questi due libri sono eccellenti. In Inghilterra l'opera è uscita nel 1989
col titolo "Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40" (2 voll.).
Si attendeva - e si attende ancora - il completamento della serie. Ma in
realtà non so se Manchester ci stia lavorando su.
Ho appena ordinato "Churchill" di Roy Jenkins. E' uscito in Inghilterra da
meno di un mese. Ho letto che si tratta di una classica biografia in
perfetto stile britannico: mi aspetto quindi un libro godibile, più che uno
studio superspecialistico.
Se invece preferisci attendere ancora qualche mese, dovrebbe uscire a
gennaio del 2002 la biografia di Churchill di John Keegan.
Saluti.
Gigi

 realtà non so se Manchester ci stia lavorando su.
Mi sono dimenticato di segnalare che questi due libri di Manchester fanno
parte di una monumentale biografia, il cui primo tomo è uscito col titolo:
"The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932". Io
non ho letto questo libro, avendo acquistato solo i due volumi della
Frassinelli sopra citati, ma se tanto mi dà tanto immagino che sia anch'esso
eccellente.
Saluti.
Gigi

 gennaio del 2002 la biografia di Churchill di John Keegan.
Grazie Luigi, sono molto indeciso se ordinare Jenkins o aspettare Keegan.
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 Grazie Luigi, sono molto indeciso se ordinare Jenkins o aspettare Keegan.
Da quello che so io, di Jenkins si dice che è tributario dello studio di
Gilbert (ripeto: quella di Gilbert è la biografia ufficiale). Comunque sia,
eccoti una presentazione dell'autore fatta da Ged Martin dell'International
Churchill Society:
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Introduction to Lord Jenkins
Professor Ged Martin,
Director of Canadian Studies, University of Edinburgh
TO SUMMARIZE our speaker's achievements is not a task which can be achieved
in a few words, but it is an honour to make the attempt. Roy Jenkins was
born in Wales in 1920. He was educated at University College, Cardiff, and
at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took First Class Honours in Politics,
Philosophy and Economics, proceeding to war service with the Royal Artillery
in 1942. It was as Captain Jenkins that he married in 1945 (and it is a
pleasure to welcome) Dame Jennifer Jenkins in her own right, who is one of
our guests tonight. Roy Jenkins first entered Parliament in 1948. He was MP
for the Stechford Division of Birmingham from 1950 until 1976, and later
from 1982 to 1987 for the Hillhead Division of Glasgow He was Deputy Leader
of the Labour Party from 1970 to 1972, resigning on an issue of principle.
He has been a member of the House of Lords since 1987.
As a mere outline, that alone would be enough to draw the distinction
between politician and statesman. At the risk of embarrassing our guest, I
would, however go further, to point to striking parallels with the career of
Winston Churchill, about whom he will speak tonight from personal
recollection.
Roy Jenkins has held two of the great offices of State-Chancellor of the
Exchequer and Home Secretary-which were also held by Churchill. With
Churchill, he is one of a small number of public figures who have changed
parties while sacrificing nothing of their public esteem-quite the reverse,
in fact.
Like Churchill, he once lost a memorable by-election in Lancashire.
Churchill was defeated in Northwest Manchester in 1908; Roy Jenkins carried
the banner of the newly formed Social Democratic Party at Warrington in
1981: to defeat, yes, but polling so remarkably for the fledgling SDP that
he was able to claim a defeat that tasted like victory~ And, just as
Churchill then moved north of the border to a seat at Dundee, so Roy Jenkins
won Glasgow Hillhead for the Social Democrats at a further by-election in
1982.
Indeed, in two respects, Roy Jenkins may be said to have brought to reality
projects which even in Churchillian vision were never more than a dream. As
the first leader of the SDP, 'and later one of the major figures in its
merger into the Liberal Democrats, he helped to create the non-socialist
centre party which Winston Churchill himself had hoped to bring about at
various points throughout his career. In the postwar years, Churchill
conjured the vision of a united, democratic Europe. Roy Jenkins not only
held firm to that vision, but saw it to reality, serving between 1975 and
1981 as President of the European Commission, the first British citizen to
have held that office.
Beyond the realm of politics, the Churchillian parallel holds good because
like Churchill-and perhaps, dare I say, with greater recognition among the
scholarly community-Roy Jenkins is an accomplished biographer and historian.
His lives of Dilke and of Asquith have brought alive two personalities who
played their parts in the careers of the young Winston. He has also been the
biographer of Baldwin (a subject which might not have appealed to
Churchill); and he was the author of what he tided an "interim biography" of
Mr. Attlee (a subject which perhaps Churchill might have disdained
altogether).
My own favourite among Roy Jenkins's books is the engagingly titled Mr.
BaIfour's Poodle, a study of the House of Lords crisis of 1909-11 in which
Churchill was a central actor, its title taken from the memorable jibe of a
fellow Welshman, David Lloyd George. (Not least among Arthur Balfour's
claims to immortality was the fact that he was Chancellor of the University
of Edinburgh.)
I suspect that among his many and massive achievements, Roy Jenkins himself
may prize as the highest of them all the fact that he is Chancellor of the
University of Oxford. It is in that role that my academic colleagues, Paul
Addison and David Stafford, join me in particularly honouring our guest
tonight.
I am sure that enough has been said to justify my asking you to extend a
hearty welcome to Lord Jenkins of Hillhead.
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Saluti.
Gigi

 bene sia in italiano che in inglese.
John Charmley, Churchill - The End of Glory. Poderosa biografia, libro
recente e non tradotto in italiano. Ovviamente non tradotto: Charmley e' il
perno del revisionismo churchilliano, una scuola di giovani storici non
propriamente teneri verso Winnie, come Sheila Lawlor e Maurice Cowling. Si
puo' essere in radicale disaccordo con loro (John Lukacs lo e', per esempio)
ma la loro visione e' comunque un pugno nello stomaco per chi e' assuefatto
al mito bronzeo del salvatore dei britanni.
Haydn

 Churchill Society:
Grazie ancora per aver puntualizzato, mi ero confuso nello scrivere: sono
indeciso tra Gilbert e Keegan, non tra Jenkins e Keegan. Se quella di Gilbert e'
la biografia ufficiale, negli anni ho apprezzato molto i libri di Keegan  e
quindi tendo a ''fidarmene''. Prendo una pausa di riflessione e poi agisco.
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