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5 de jul. de 2016 · `Great Contemporaries' is a fascinating, informative and enjoyable series of 22 "essays on Great Men of our age" which Churchill wrote during the 1930s. To read them is to hear that unforgettable voice describing to you the people he knew and the critical events of three decades.
- Winston S. Churchill
Great Contemporaries. Winston Churchill. Putnam, 1937 - Biography - 299 pages. A collection of essays about twenty-one men whom Churchill felt contributed to the course of the world in which he lived.
5 de abr. de 2013 · Thirty years ago in these pages (FH 36:11) the late H. Ashley Redburn reviewed Great Contemporaries under the subtitle, “Churchill Did Care Much about Others,” rejecting the common portrait of WSC as a self-centered egoist concerned only about himself.
9 de jun. de 2023 · On this episode, Dr. Arnn and Hugh finish their discussion of Great Contemporaries, a collection of 25 short biographical essays written by Churchill, and the story Kaiser Wilhelm II. Release date: 09 June 2023. Dr. Larry P. Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, joins Hugh Hewitt on the Hillsdale Dialogues for his series on "Churchill the Writer."
17 de oct. de 2008 · Churchill’s views on unemployment, productivity, financial and economic policy on the life and well-being of every country are as appropriate 50 years on as they were in 1932. It is as if the world has not moved. His views on trade unionism may cause younger readers, reared on the myth that he hated and wished to destroy the unions, to ...
Great Contemporaries is Churchill's much-praised collection of insightful essays about leading personalities of the day - including the likes of Lawrence, Shaw, and, most famously, Hitler. While some of the subjects of Churchill's sketches have receded into history, many remain well-known and all remain compellingly drawn.
18 de may. de 2023 · Early Morley. “Men of the Day: John Morley,” by “Spy” in Vanity Fair, 30 November 1878. (Public domain) John Morley was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, the son of a doctor who wanted him to become a clergyman. Disenchanted with the “High Church” and quarreling with his father, he left Oxford without an honors degree and pursued Law.
