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Books. Great Contemporaries. Winston Churchill. Books for Libraries Press, 1937 - Biography & Autobiography - 299 pages. The original edition of this collection of articles was published in 1937 (Thornton Butterworth); subsequent editions appeared in 1936 (with four new articles, including a portrait of FDR) and in 1943 (in which articles on ...
Great Contemporaries profiles towering figures ranging from Franklin Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Lawrence of Arabia and Leon Trotsky to Charlie Chaplin, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling and George Bernard Shaw. Written in the decade before Churchill became prime minister, the essays in Great Contemporaries focus on the challenges of statecraft at a time when the democratic revolution was toppling ...
19 de fev. de 2013 · Great Contemporaries, published in 1937, offered brief lives of twenty-one “great men of our age”; an expanded edition with four additional essays followed in 1938. A proposed third volume of essays on American subjects was not pub-lished in Churchill’s lifetime but, posthumously edited by his homonymous grandson, appeared in 1999 as The Great Republic .
The lives of great men struggling through war and revolution are laid out in Churchill’s magnificent English. The author’s firm command of rhythm and masterful weaving of metaphors are plain astounding, even intimidating.The contrast with the petty drudgery in most people’s lives is sobering, nay, depressing. Like.
`Great Contemporaries' is a fascinating, informative and enjoyable series of 22 "essays on Great Men of our age" which Churchill wrote during the 1930s. To read them is to hear that unforgettable voice describing to you the people he knew and the critical events of three decades.
- Winston S. Churchill
This is the British first edition, first printing, increasingly scarce thus with a clean, unfaded binding protected by a first printing dust jacket. Great Contemporaries is Churchill's much-praised collection of insightful essays about 21 leading personalities of the day - including the likes of Lawrence, Shaw, and, most famously, Hitler.
Great Contemporaries. Great Contemporaries ( Les/Mes Grands Contemporains) est une collection d' essais biographiques courts sur des personnages célèbres écrite par Winston Churchill . La genèse de l’ouvrage est connue : toujours en quête de revenus, et toujours désireux de recycler au maximum ses écrits pour engranger de nouveaux ...
