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In modern memory, Winston Churchill remains the man with the cigar and the equanimity among the ruins. Few can remember that at the age of 40 he was considered washed up, his best days behind him. In Young Titan, historian Michael Shelden has produced the first biography focused on Churchills early career, the years between 1901 and 1915 that both nearly undid him but also forged the character that would later triumph in the Second World War.
About the Author
Michael Shelden is the author of six biographies, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist, Orwell: The Authorized Biography, which was also a New York Times Notable Book. For fifteen years, he was a features writer for the London Daily Telegraph, and for ten years he served as a fiction critic for the Baltimore Sun. His most recent books are Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill, and Melville in Love: The Secret Life of Herman Melville and the Muse of Moby-Dick.
