Churchill by Paul Johnson
Somehow I managed to pass through high school, college, grad
school and some decades since then without having ever read a single biography
of Winston Churchill (never mind a word of the man’s own vast output).
But prompted by a planned visit to his ancestral home,
Blenheim Palace, and a nagging awareness of this gap in my education, I’ve just
devoured Paul Johnson’s wonderfully concise biography of Sir Winston.
Johnson’s rapid-fire summary of his life speeds you along
to complete agreement with his conclusion: Churchill is the greatest figure of the 20th Century.
Johnson wraps up with a list of
the man’s defining character traits that’s so concise it could earn this book a
place in the self-help section.
At 128 pages, you can knock this off on your next plane
ride -- and you should.
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