Man of the century : Winston Churchill and his legend since 1945 / John Ramsden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramsden, John, 1947-2009.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.

Churchill, Winston.

Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965--Last years.

Prime ministers--Great Britain--Biography.

Prime ministers.

Civilization.

Last years of a person's life.

Great Britain.

English-speaking countries.

English-speaking countries--Civilization.

World War, 1939-1945--Influence.

World War, 1939-1945.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xx, 652 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2002]

Summary:

"Man of the Century" is the often surprising story of how Winston Churchill, in the last years of his life, carefully crafted his reputation for posterity, revealing him to be perhaps the twentieth century's first, and most gifted, "spin doctor." Ramsden draws on fresh material and extensive research on three continents to argue that the statesman's force of personality and romantic, imperial notion of Britain has contributed directly to many of the political debates of the last decades -- including American involvement in Vietnam and the role of the Anglo-American alliance in promoting and protecting a certain vision of world order.

Contents:

1 'The Greatest Dying Englishman': Churchill's Death and Funeral 3

2 'Had This War Not Come, Who Would Speak of Winston Churchill?' 37

3 'The Greatest Living Englishman' 80

4 'I Must Justify Myself before History': Fulton and the War Memoirs 154

5 'The Maker of Modern Ireland'?: Churchill and the Celts 225

6 'The Father of Europe'?: Churchill and the Europeans 267

7 'An English-speaking Union in my own Person': Churchill the American 325

8 'The Lynchpin of the English-Speaking Peoples': Churchill and Canada 372

9 'The Brightest Gem in the British Crown': Churchill in New Zealand 414

10 'Bad Stock': Churchill and Australia 436

11 Robert Menzies, Worldwide Leader of the Churchill Appreciation Society 487

12 The Man of the Century - and of the Next? 527.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [591]-629) and index.

ISBN:

0231131062

OCLC:

52133027