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Great Contemporaries: Churchill Reflects On Fdr, Hitler, Kipling, Chaplin, Balfour, And Other Giants Of His Age Pasta blanda – 1 enero 1707
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Winston Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on the strength of “his mastery of historical and biographical .” Nowhere is that mastery more evident than in Great Contemporaries (1937), which features Churchill’s brief lives of those he called “Great Men of our age.”
ISI Books is proud to publish a brand-new, illustrated edition of this neglected classic. 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 Berrd Shaw. This edition—the first in twenty years—includes five essays that have never appeared in any previous version, some thirty black-and-white photographs, and an enlightening introduction and annotations by noted Churchill scholar Jes W. Muller.
Written in the decade before Churchill bece minister, the essays in Great Contemporaries focus on the challenges of statecraft at a time when the democratic revolution was toppling older regimes based on tradition and aristocratic privilege. Churchill’s keen observations take on new importance in our own age of roiling political change.
Ultimately, Great Contemporaries provides fasciting insight into the statesman’s perspective. Churchill’s objective is clear: he tries to learn from these giants what makes a man great. He approaches his subjects with a measuring eye, finding their limitations at least as revealing as their merits.
This handsome new edition of Great Contemporaries brings back Churchill’s unmatched insights and unforgettable prose for a new generation of readers and leaders.
- Libro 3 de 5
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EN
Inglés
- Fecha de publicación
1707
enero 1
- Dimensiones
15.2 x 3.6 x 22.9
cm
- ISBN-101935191993
- ISBN-13978-1935191995
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- ISBN-10 : 1935191993
- ISBN-13 : 978-1935191995
- Dimensiones : 15.24 x 3.56 x 22.86 cm
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The majority of the subjects were political or military figures of the preceding thirty years, sometimes friends and colleagues, sometimes parliamentary opponents, and the book sparkles with personal insights gained from life both in Westminster and on the Western Front.
As the various anniversaries of events in the 1914-18 war are approaching, this book is also an excellent, concise briefing on many of the British and French leaders with whom Churchill served: Asquith, Balfour, Haig, French and Fisher for Britain, Clemenceau and Foch for France. Naturally, his profiles of the Kaiser and Hindenburg were written from (to say the least) a greater distance.
This is a diverse collection; among others encountered are George Bernard Shaw, Parnell, Philip Snowden, King George V, Lawrence of Arabia, Baden-Powell and, viewed from 1935 with the prescience that most people at that time still chose to ignore, Hitler.
The most personal contribution is the essay on his great friend Frederick `F.E.' Smith. The opening line illustrates one of the great strengths of this collection; written for busy readers of newspapers, each essay seizes your attention and holds it. "A hundred years ago, Thomas Smith was the best runner and the most redoubtable knuckle-fighter in the West Riding of Yorkshire." After such an introduction, could any reader not wish to read on and discover how his great-grandson "became Lord Chancellor of England."?
This edition is a reprint of that of 1942, which extended but rarely altered the original 1937 collection. Churchill assumed his original readers would be aware of the major issues of the day and so does not reiterate every detail of each referenced fact or person. However, with his explanation and analysis of significant events in the lives he is describing, and the many interactions between the "Great Contemporaries", it is not difficult to absorb the political intrigues of a century ago through the prose and the almost spoken presence of the very greatest of their contemporaries.
Great Contemporaries is a series of essays written between 1929 and 1937 on the "great" leaders of the day. Churchill knew many of these leaders personally, and is able to supplement what might otherwise be a dry recitation of the facts of a career with personal stories and vignettes.
Perhaps the most famous of the essays is on "Hitler and his Choice, 1935." This essay is often cited by neo-Nazis and far leftists as proof that Churchill actually admired Hitler. But finally getting the chance to read the essay shows that any such analysis takes Churchill's words extremely out of context. Hitler was to be Churchill's great antagonist in the coming decade. In 1935, Churchill recognized that Hitler was facing a choice - would Hitler take a moderate road and perhaps be remembered as the leader who restored German honor, or who Hitler take the road of war. Churchill ends the essay with a warning, that German rearmament was continuing, and, of course, tragically, Churchill's misgivings were played out.
One problem, with this book is that many of the "great" men described are almost forgotten today, at least outside their home countries. Men like the Earl of Rosebery (Prime Minister in the 1890s) or King Alfosno XIII of Spain probably make no impression on the American reader while George Curzon is remembered, if at all, as the man who roughly proposed the border between Poland and the Soviet Union (the "Curzon Line").
The book includes essays on well-remembered men such as George Bernard Shaw, Clemenceau and Churchill's protégé T.E. Lawrence (better known as "Lawrence of Arabia"). These essays, full of personal remembrances by Churchill, are well worth the time.