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YOUNG TITAN
The Making of Winston Churchill
Michael Shelden, the acclaimed biographer of George Orwell, Graham Greene, and Mark Twain, writes a groundbreaking biography of the young Winston Churchill based on newly excavated materials that reveal his formation as a political and military leader.
Winston Churchill took the world stage as a larger-than-life figure. He was an acclaimed orator; a shrewd politician; a popular Prime Minister, a World War II hero, a Nobel-Prize winner (for literature); and the first person to be named an Honorary Citizen of the United States. Now, in a vivid narrative, Michael Shelden delves into the years that formed this complex and always fascinating man, identifying the brilliant qualities and moves he executed to rise fast, and the spectacular missteps that would bring him down at the age of 40.
While the older, victorious Churchill of World War II has long overshadowed his early years, the story of the eager young man who soared to prominence only to find he had overreached, and who left office with his reputation in tatters is the key to Churchill’s character. It was an exhilarating time full of high drama, political intrigue, personal courage, and grave miscalculations. During these years, he built a modern navy, experimented with radical social reforms and did battle with others who thought he wasn’t radical enough, survived various threats on his life, made powerful enemies and a few good friends, pursued the three most beautiful women of his day and fell in love several times, became a husband and father, annoyed and delighted two British monarchs, took the measure of the German military machine as he rode at the side of Kaiser Wilhelm on maneuvers, risked his life in the air as a pilot in training, authorized executions of notorious murderers, and faced deadly artillery barrages on the Western front.
Michael Shelden is the author of three previous biographies, including ORWELL, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a New York Times Notable Book. A former Features Writer for The Daily Telegraph (London) and a fiction critic for the Baltimore Sun, he is currently a professor of English at Indiana State University.
While the older, victorious Churchill of World War II has long overshadowed his early years, the story of the eager young man who soared to prominence only to find he had overreached, and who left office with his reputation in tatters is the key to Churchill’s character. It was an exhilarating time full of high drama, political intrigue, personal courage, and grave miscalculations. During these years, he built a modern navy, experimented with radical social reforms and did battle with others who thought he wasn’t radical enough, survived various threats on his life, made powerful enemies and a few good friends, pursued the three most beautiful women of his day and fell in love several times, became a husband and father, annoyed and delighted two British monarchs, took the measure of the German military machine as he rode at the side of Kaiser Wilhelm on maneuvers, risked his life in the air as a pilot in training, authorized executions of notorious murderers, and faced deadly artillery barrages on the Western front.
Michael Shelden is the author of three previous biographies, including ORWELL, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a New York Times Notable Book. A former Features Writer for The Daily Telegraph (London) and a fiction critic for the Baltimore Sun, he is currently a professor of English at Indiana State University.
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