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Great contemporaries : Churchill reflects on FDR, Hitler, Kipling, Chaplin, Balfour, and other giants of his age / Winston S. Churchill ; edited by James W. Muller with Paul H. Courtenay and Erica L. Chenoweth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965, author.
- Series:
- Winston S. Churchill Essays and Other Works
- Winston S. Churchill Essays and Other Works ; v.3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biography--20th century.
- Biography.
- Great Britain--Biography.
- Great Britain.
- Europe--Biography.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (470 pages) : illustrations, photographs
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : RosettaBooks, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Great Contemporaries provides fascinating insight into the lives of those he called "Great Men of our age". He approaches his subjects with a measuring eye, finding their limitations at least as revealing as their merits in his search to discover what makes a man great.
- Contents:
- Hitler and his choice
- George Nathaniel Curzon
- Philip Snowden
- Clemenceau
- King George V
- Lord Fisher and his biographer
- Charles Stewart Parnell
- "B.-P."
- Roosevelt from afar
- Additional essays in this edition
- H.G. Wells
- Charlie Chaplin
- Kitchener of Khartoum
- King Edward VIII
- Rudyard Kipling.
- Notes:
- "Essays and other Works"--Cover.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7953-4967-X
- OCLC:
- 1051140777
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