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008			s2009 nyu e b 001 0beng
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020			_a9781440754173
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050	0	0	_aDA566.9.C5 _bJ64 2009
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100	1		_aJohnson, Paul, _d1928-2023 _0(DLC)n 79110942
245	1	0	_aChurchill _cRead by Simon Prebble
260			_aNew York : _bRecorded Books _c2009.
263			_a0911
300			_a4 cd's _e4.75 hrs
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aYoung thruster -- Liberal statesman -- The lessons of failure -- Success and disasters -- The unregarded prophet -- Supreme power and frustration -- Glorious twilight.
520			_aStarred Review. In this enthusiastic yet first-rate biography, veteran British historian Johnson (Modern Times) asserts that Winston Churchill (18741965) was the 20th century's most valuable figure: No man did more to preserve freedom and democracy.... An ambitious, world-traveling soldier and bestselling author, Churchill was already famous on entering Parliament in 1899 and within a decade was working with Lloyd George to pass the great reforms of 19081911. As First Lord of the Admiralty, he performed brilliantly in preparing the navy for WWI, but blameundeserved according to Johnsonfor the catastrophic 1915 Dardanelles invasion drove him from office. Within two years, he was back at the top, where he remained until the Depression. Johnson delivers an adulatory account of Churchill's prescient denunciations of Hitler and heroics during the early days of WWII, and views later missteps less critically than other historians. He concludes that Churchill was a thoroughly likable great man with many irritating flaws but no nasty ones: he lacked malice, avoided grudges, vendettas and blame shifting, and quickly replaced enmity with friendship. Biographers in love with their subjects usually produce mediocre history, but Johnson, always self-assured as well as scholarly, has written another highly opinionated, entertaining work
600	1	0	_aChurchill, Winston, _d1874-1965 _0(DLC)n 78085430
650		0	_aPrime ministers _zGreat Britain _vBiography. _0(DLC)sh2008108776
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xPolitics and government _y20th century. _0(DLC)n 79023147
852			_9p$35.00
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