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Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future

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More than any other book by Winston Churchill, the wide-ranging THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES allows the contemporary reader to grasp the extraordinary variety and depth of Churchill's mature thoughts on the questions, both grave and gay, facing modern man.

Churchill begins by asking what it would be like to live your life over again and ends by describing his love affair with painting. In between, he touches on subjects as diverse as spies, cartoons, submarines, elections, flying, and the future. Reading these essays--originally dictated late at night in the 1920s in his study, and by which he was able to support his family and live like a lord without inherited wealth--is like being invited to dinner at Churchill's country seat at Chartwell, where the soup was limpid, Pol Roger Champagne flowed, the pudding had a theme, and Churchill entertained lucky visitors with vivid conversation. This ISI Books edition, with a new introduction and notes by James W. Muller, Academic Chairman of the Churchill Centre, recovers Churchill's unforgettable table talk for a new generation of readers.


About the Author:

Winston S. Churchill, born at BlenheimPalace in Oxfordshire in 1874, fought in four wars on three continents and wrote five books before taking his seat in the House of Commons in 1901 at the age of twenty-six. He was Colonial Undersecretary, President of the Board of Trade, and Home Secretary in Liberal governments before becoming First Lord of the Admiralty in 1911. Through most of the 1930s, he held no cabinet office but remained a member of the House of Commons. He returned to the Admiralty in 1939 upon the outbreak of the Second World War, becoming Prime Minister and Minister of Defense in 1940. In summer 1945 the British public dismissed him from further conduct of their affairs, but he served again as Prime Minister from 1951 to 1955. The author of more than forty books, in 1953 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and in 1963 he was made an honorary citizen of the United States. He died in London in 1965.

James W. Muller is Professor of Political Science at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. He is a By-Fellow of ChurchillCollege, Cambridge, Academic Chairman of the Churchill Centre, and a recipient of the Farrow Award for Excellence in Churchill Studies. Muller earned his first degree and Ph.D. from Harvard and is cofounder of the Forty-Ninth State Fellows Program at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. He is editor of The Revival of Constitutionalism, Churchill as Peacemaker, and Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech Fifty Years Later, and of a new edition of Winston Spencer Churchill, The RiverWar: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan

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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781935191469
  • Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
  • Publisher Imprint: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
  • Depth: 32
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future
  • Width: 150 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1935191462
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 226 mm
  • No of Pages: 350
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Weight: 612 gr


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