The literary Churchill author, reader, actor
This literary biography introduces a Churchill we have not known before. Author Jonathan Rose explores in tandem Churchill's careers as statesman and author, revealing the profound influence of literature and theater on Churchill's personal, carefully composed grand story and on the decisi...
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New Haven
Yale University Press
2014
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Table of Contents:
- The theatre rage
- An uneducated man
- A pushing age
- War of the worlds
- A portrait of the artist
- Publicity capital
- Things to come
- Comédie anglaise
- On the stage of history
- What actually happened
- Revolutionaries
- The chancellor's star turn
- That special relationship
- The apple cart
- The producer
- Blackout
- The loaded pause
- The hour of fate and the crack of doom
- This different England
- The war poet
- Victory?
- The summit
- The last whig
- The terrible ifs