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A major reassessment of Winston Churchill that examines his lasting influence in politics and culture.Churchill is generally considered one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century, if not the greatest of all, revered for his opposition to appeasement, his defiance in the face of German bombing of England, his political prowess, his deft aphorisms, and his memorable speeches. He became the savior of his country, as prime minister during the most perilous period in British history, World War II, and is now perhaps even more beloved in America than in England.And yet Churchill was also very often in the wrong: he brazenly contradicted his own previous political stances, was a disastrous military strategist, and inspired dislike and distrust through much of his life.
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Geoffrey Albert Wheatcroft (born 23 December 1945 in London) is a British journalist and writer. He was educated at University College School, London, and at New College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. Publishing and journalismHe started work in publishing in 1968, working for Hamish Hamilton (1968-70) , Michael Joseph (1971-73) , and Cassell & Co (1974-75) .In 1975 he became the assistant editor of The Spectator, moving to the post of literary editor, which he occupied from 1977 to 1981. During the period 1981-84, he worked as a reporter in South Africa before becoming editor of the Londoner's Diary gossip column in the London Evening Standard, 1985-86. He was a Sunday Telegraph columnist 1987-91, freelance 1993-96; feature writer on the Daily Express, 1996-97; and has since written for The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, the Boston Globe, the Atlantic, The American Conservative, and other publications on both sides of the Atlantic.
