

Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill
A Brief Account of a Long Life
Author: Gretchen Rubin
Narrator: Gretchen Rubin
Unabridged: 6 hr 21 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 08/06/2019
Categories: Nonfiction, Travel, Europe, Great Britain, History, European History, Biography & Autobiography, Political Biography
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Bonus Material
Synopsis
Like no other portrait of its famous subject, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill is a dazzling display of facts more 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 by reading 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 of the 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 a bore.
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 to construct, too complicated for even the longest narrative to describe, and too valuable ever to be forgotten.
Includes a bonus PDF with additional resources.