Great contemporaries
Subtitle: Churchill reflects on FDR, Hitler, Kipling, Chaplin, Balfour, and other giants of his age
By: Winston S. Churchill ; edited by James W. Muller with Paul H. Courtenay and Erica L. Chenoweth
Contributors: Muller, James W., 1953-
Publisher: ISI Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Wilmington, DE
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781935191995
Subjects: Biography
Description: "Great Contemporaries is a collection of 25 essays about eminent personalities, whom Churchill evaluates with humour and understanding. These characters range from the good to the evil, the foolish to the wise, including political heavyweights (Balfour, Hitler, Trotsky, Roosevelt, Asquith); military commanders (General Haig, Lawrence of Arabia) and non-political Britons (Baden-Powell, King George V). With hindsight this book implies Churchill's absorption of these lessons in leadership and greatness, ready for the moment when he himself was to step forward as a great leader in his own right."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Originally published: London : Butterworth, 1937.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hitler and his choice; title: George Nathaniel Curzon; title: Philip Snowden; title: Clemenceau; title: King George V; title: Lord Fisher and his biographer; title: Charles Stewart Parnell; title: "B.-P."; title: Roosevelt from afar; title: Additional essays in this edition; title: H.G. Wells; title: Charlie Chaplin; title: Kitchener of Khartoum; title: King Edward VIII; title: Rudyard Kipling.