[Winston Churchill 01] • Winston Churchill · An Informal Study of Greatness

**“For seventy-seven years he has flashed over the public scene, a beckoning, outsized diamond in a trumpery world. Before moments of British crisis, he has been so uniformly right that his incandescent prescience has itself become a burden to his colleagues and to his countrymen at large.”**

Former British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, led one of the most astonishing lives that public service has ever witnessed.

In *An Informal Study of Greatness* , Taylor presents the early life of this mythologised and prodigiously talented man.

Focusing on the school years of a young Winston Churchill and the early experiences that shaped his ambition, this fascinating biography delves into the private life of Churchill as a student, a journalist and a soldier.

This a delightful and revealing study of a man who, as Taylor puts it, was one of ‘multiple genius’ and ‘one of the most exasperating figures of history.’

Praise for *Winston Churchill: An Informal Study of Greatness*

‘Tremendously entertaining reading’ - ***Kirkus Reviews* **

Praise for Robert Lewis Taylor

“Fields makes all the modern beats look like little Lord Fauntleroys He was a supreme artist and a supreme individual and Taylor does him full justice.” - **Harry Golden**

“Robert Lewis Taylor has written a hilarious history of the fabulous comedian, written it with understanding, sympathy and a gay respect for the scandalous facts involved.” - ***The New York Times* **

“It brings its subject vividly, unforgettably back to life.” - ***The Washington Post* **

‘A prolific and witty writer’ – ***New York Times** *

**Robert Lewis Taylor** (1912-1998) was born in southern Illinois and educated at Southern Illinois University and the University of Illinois. Upon graduation, he lived in Europe and in Polynesia; then, after a brief interlude as editor of a weekly newspaper, became a reporter for the *St. Louis Post-Dispatch*. In 1940 he joined *The New Yorker* magazine as a writer of profiles and other long pieces, and remained a member of the staff. Mr. Taylor is author of the-Pulitzer Prize-winning novel *The Travels of Jamie McPheeters*. Taylor also wrote the biography *W. C. Fields: His Follies and Fortunes*.