Churchill : a biography / Roy Jenkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jenkins, Roy, 1920-2003.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.

Churchill, Winston.

Prime ministers--Great Britain--Biography.

Prime ministers.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Politics and government--20th century.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxi, 1002 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

Summary:

Exceptional in its breadth of knowledge and distinguished in its stylish wit and penetrating intelligence, this biography is a brilliant new life of Britain's greatest modern prime minister. of photos & maps.

Contents:

Part 1 A Brash Young Man 1874-1908

1. A Doubtful Provenance 3

2. Subaltern of Empire and Journalist of Opportunity 22

3. Oldham and South Africa 47

4. Tory into Liberal 65

5. Convert into Minister 89

6. An Upwardly Mobile Under-Secretary 111

Part 2 The Glow-worm Glows: The Morning was Golden 1908-1914

7. Two Hustings and an Altar 129

8. The Sorcerer's Apprentice at the Board of Trade 142

9. A Young Home Secretary 167

10. From Prisons to Warships 192

11. 'The Ruler of the King's Navee' 207

12. Churchill in Asquithland 222

Part 3 The Noontide was Bronze 1914-1918

13. A Flailing First Lord 243

14. Last Months at the Admiralty 254

15. Finished at Forty? 277

16. An Improbable Colonel and a Misjudged Re-entry 289

17. Lloyd George's Ambulance Wagon Arrives a Little Late 310

18. Making the Most of Munitions 325

Part 4 Hesitant Afternoon Sunshine 1919-1939

19. Anti-Bolshevik Crusader and Irish Peacemaker 345

20. A Politician without a Party or a Seat 370

21. Gold and Strikes 393

22. A Relentless Writer 418

23. Cuckoo out of the Nest 433

24. Unwisdom in the Wilderness 447

25. An Early Alarm Clock 464

26. Arms and the Covenant 481

27. From the Abdication to Munich 505

28. The Last Year of the Peace 530

Part 5 The Saviour of his Country and the Light of the World? 1939-1945

29. Quiet War with Germany and Uneasy Peace with Chamberlain 551

30. Through Disaster in the Fjords to Triumph in Downing Street 570

31. Twenty-One Days in May 589

32. The Terrible Beauty of the Summer of 1940 611

33. The Battle of Britain and the Beginning of the Blitz 630

34. No Longer Alone 647

35. The Anglo-American Marriage Ceremony 669

36. The Hinge Year 680

37. 1943: From Casablanca to Teheran 705

38. The Return to France 729

39. The Beginning of the End 746

40. Victory in Europe and Defeat in Britain 773

Part 6 Was the Evening Leaden? 1945-1965

41. 'The English Patient' 803

42. Two Elections and a Resurrection 827

43. A Consensual Government 843

44. 'An Aeroplane ... with the Petrol Running Out' 862

45. A Celebration and a Last Exit 885

46. The Sun Sinks Slow, How Slowly 898.

Notes:

Originally published: London : Macmillan, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [913]-957) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0374123543

OCLC:

47658851