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11 de mai. de 2012 · Great Contemporaries: Churchill Reflects on FDR, Hitler, Kipling, Chaplin, Balfour, and Other Giants of His Age. Paperback – May 11, 2012. 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 “his mastery of historical and biographical ...
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18 de mai. de 2023 · Early Morley. “Men of the Day: John Morley,” by “Spy” in Vanity Fair, 30 November 1878. (Public domain) John Morley was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, the son of a doctor who wanted him to become a clergyman. Disenchanted with the “High Church” and quarreling with his father, he left Oxford without an honors degree and pursued Law.
Insightful biographical sketches of major historical figures of the twentieth century, from the incomparable British statesman. Winston S. Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of “his mastery of historical and biographical description.” Nowhere is that mastery more evident than in Great Contemporaries—which features Churchill’s profiles of many of the ...
Great Contemporaries. Winston Churchill. Putnam, 1937 - Biography - 299 pages. A collection of essays about twenty-one men whom Churchill felt contributed to the ...
London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd., 1938. First revised and expanded edition. Hardcover. This is the first printing of the first revised and expanded edition of Churchill’s much-praised collection of insightful essays about leading personalities of the day. This edition, published in 1938 soon after the first edition of 1937, added four new essays Fisher, Parnell, Baden-Powell, and - of great ...
25 de fev. de 2021 · Harry Hopkins is justly celebrated as one of the most important diplomats of the 20th century. Yet for the role, he lacked schooling and travel and was hopelessly unpolished. Hopkins’ expertise was not diplomacy but relief programs of America’s post-Depression era. He had never seen the Court of St. James’s; what he knew were the ...
