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The Great Man—Winston Churchill (The Robert Payne Library Book 6)

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Description:In The Great Man, Robert Payne turns his impressive talents to a probing biography of one of the most complex, charismatic, and misunderstood giants of the twentieth century. Payne presents a well-rounded and honest portrait of a man who was intimately and equally familiar with glory and despair. The author sees Churchill as a consummately ambitious man whose haunting preoccupation with “greatness”—as a modern-day conqueror and as the chronicler of his own flamboyant legend—caused him to take risks that played with the destiny of the world. We witness all the well-known facts of Churchill’s life: the history of his illustrious family, a lonely childhood lived at frustrating distance from his dazzling American mother, Jennie Jerome, and his brilliant, erratic father, Lord Randolph Churchill, a lackluster performance at school, a growing love of the military which led to his enrollment at Sandhurst, marriage and his early books, and the precarious pulse of a long political career, never more inspiring than when exhorting his people to resolutely oppose the menace of Hitler. Payne sets forth these events with new meaning in an attempt to get at the man behind the facts the better to explain them. Churchill’s final years, Prime Minister still, Nobel Prize winner, painter and best-selling author, are written with a sympathy that is not blind to truth. Payne offers a last look at the grand old man, obstinately dying by inches, sitting alone by the fire listening to recordings of his own speeches, that is powerful and poignant, for Churchill had been overtaken by his greatest adversary, time, and the linchpins of his existence—the Empire and the aristocracy—were irrevocably shaken.Robert Payne (1911-1983) was born in Cornwall, U.K. His father was English, his mother French. He was educated at St. Paul's School in London and at the universities of Liverpool, Capetown in South Africa, Munich and The Sorbonne. During his lifetime he had over a hundred books published on a wide range of subjects, the widest range of any known author. He was known chiefly for his biographies and history books, among them Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Gandhi, Leonardo, Chaplin, the Christian Centuries, The World of Art. He also wrote novels and poetry. Librarians loved him; critics raved about him. Orville Prescott of The New York Times referred to him as “a literary phenomenon of astounding versatility and industry.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Great Man—Winston Churchill (The Robert Payne Library Book 6). To get started finding The Great Man—Winston Churchill (The Robert Payne Library Book 6), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In The Great Man, Robert Payne turns his impressive talents to a probing biography of one of the most complex, charismatic, and misunderstood giants of the twentieth century. Payne presents a well-rounded and honest portrait of a man who was intimately and equally familiar with glory and despair. The author sees Churchill as a consummately ambitious man whose haunting preoccupation with “greatness”—as a modern-day conqueror and as the chronicler of his own flamboyant legend—caused him to take risks that played with the destiny of the world. We witness all the well-known facts of Churchill’s life: the history of his illustrious family, a lonely childhood lived at frustrating distance from his dazzling American mother, Jennie Jerome, and his brilliant, erratic father, Lord Randolph Churchill, a lackluster performance at school, a growing love of the military which led to his enrollment at Sandhurst, marriage and his early books, and the precarious pulse of a long political career, never more inspiring than when exhorting his people to resolutely oppose the menace of Hitler. Payne sets forth these events with new meaning in an attempt to get at the man behind the facts the better to explain them. Churchill’s final years, Prime Minister still, Nobel Prize winner, painter and best-selling author, are written with a sympathy that is not blind to truth. Payne offers a last look at the grand old man, obstinately dying by inches, sitting alone by the fire listening to recordings of his own speeches, that is powerful and poignant, for Churchill had been overtaken by his greatest adversary, time, and the linchpins of his existence—the Empire and the aristocracy—were irrevocably shaken.Robert Payne (1911-1983) was born in Cornwall, U.K. His father was English, his mother French. He was educated at St. Paul's School in London and at the universities of Liverpool, Capetown in South Africa, Munich and The Sorbonne. During his lifetime he had over a hundred books published on a wide range of subjects, the widest range of any known author. He was known chiefly for his biographies and history books, among them Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Gandhi, Leonardo, Chaplin, the Christian Centuries, The World of Art. He also wrote novels and poetry. Librarians loved him; critics raved about him. Orville Prescott of The New York Times referred to him as “a literary phenomenon of astounding versatility and industry.”We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Great Man—Winston Churchill (The Robert Payne Library Book 6). To get started finding The Great Man—Winston Churchill (The Robert Payne Library Book 6), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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