Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill

Warrior and writer, genius and crank, rider in the British cavalry's last great charge and inventor of the tank-Winston Churchill led Britain to fight alone against Nazi Germany in the fatefulyear of 1940 and set the standard for leading a democracy at war.

Like no other portrait of its famous subject, "Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill" is a dazzling display of factsmore improbable than fiction, and an investigation of the contradictions and complexities that haunt biography. Gretchen Craft Rubin gives readers, in a single volume, the kind of rounded view usually gained only byreading dozens of conventional biographies.

With penetrating insight and vivid anecdotes, Rubin makes Churchill accessible and meaningful to twenty-first-century readers with forty contrasting views ofthe man: he was an alcoholic, he was not; he was an anachronism, he was a visionary; he was a racist, he was a humanitarian; he was the most quotable man in the history of the English language, he was abore.

In crisp, energetic language, Rubin creates a new form for presenting a great figure of history-and brings to full realization the depiction of a man too fabulous for any novelist toconstruct, too complicated for even the longest narrative to describe, and too valuable ever to be forgotten.

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