—JAMES ATLAS, author of Bellow: A Biography
“Was there ever a better subject for biography? Heroic, petty, noble, selfish, courageous, devious, grandiloquent, plain-speaking, generous, tyrannical, Churchill was all these and more. Rubin strives to capture the essence of her larger-than-life subject not through a head-on assault, but by circling him and taking snapshots from a multiplicity of angles. Her Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill is a feat of intelligent compression, a stereoscopic portrait for the space age, a biography in miniature, and not least, a rattling good read.”
—MICHAEL SCAMMELL, author of Solzhenitsyn: A Biography
“An excellent introduction to one of the most written-about men in history . . . Rubin’s unique approach works surprisingly well, bringing fresh insight to an exhaustively covered subject.”
—Publishers Weekly
PERMISSION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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The author gratefully acknowledges the permission granted by the Masters, Fellows and Scholars of Churchill College, Cambridge, for the use of an excerpt from the letter of Clementine Churchill to Winston Churchill dated June 27, 1940.
Quotations from My Early Life: A Roving Commission by Winston Churchill, pages 2, 3, 18, 23, 84, 93, 94, 105, 106, 153, 180, 181, 210, and 223 reprinted with the permission of Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group and Curtis Brown Ltd., London, from My Early Life: A Roving Commission by Winston Churchill. Copyright © 1930 by Charles Scribner’s Sons; Copyright renewed © 1958 by Winston Churchill.
Quotations from Painting as a Pastime and The Second World War: Their Finest Hour by Winston Churchill, from Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills edited by Mary Soames, Copyright © Lady Soames, and from Winston S. Churchill by Randolph Churchill and Martin Gilbert, reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Ltd., London, on behalf of Winston S. Churchill. Copyright © Winston S. Churchill.
Quotations from The Oaken Heart by Margery Allingham reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd., London, on behalf of Rights Ltd. Copyright © Margery Allingham 1941.
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Gretchen Rubin, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill
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