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Churchill and America

Churchill and America

by Martin Gilbert (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

    $3.36

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    Hardcover 2006

    $12.20
Synopsis

Tony Blair may now be perceived as the most pro-American Prime Minister since the war, but his desire to keep close to Washington is as nothing compared to Winston Churchill's love for the Land of the Free. Born to an American mother, Churchill spent his whole life in thrall to the power and potential of the United States, with his affection and respect reaching its apogee during his crucial bilaterals with President Roosevelt at the height of the Second World War. Tracing the great man's relationship with America from birth to death, Sir Martin Gilbert now presents the first full account of what the country meant to Churchill, what he learned from it, and what he taught its leaders and people. Revealing and entertaining in equal measure, Sir Martin Gilbert's new history reveals for the first time the true extent of a passion whose effects are still felt today.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 528
 Edition: New e.
 Publisher: Pocket Books, Great Britain
Published: 03 Jul 2006
ISBN 10: 1416522646
ISBN 13: 9781416522645

Media Reviews
This is a fascinating story, straightforward and well told, of one of the 20th century's most important leaders.
-- Publishers Weekly
This is a fascinating story, straightforward and well told, of one of the 20th century's most important leaders.
-- Publishers Weekly
Winston Churchill, the half-American savior of Britain, had a love affair that Sir Martin Gilbert, the official biographer, is uniquely equipped to describe and discuss: that with the United States. In a masterly synthesis, Gilbert puts Churchill's never entirely easy relationships with presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower in the right context -- nothing less than the survival of democracy in Europe. Churchill's encounters with the likes of Bernard Baruch, William Randolph Hearst, Ethel Barrymore and a near-lethal car on Fifth Avenue are all here, but it is the political context that is most valuable at a time when the latent beast of anti-Americanism has bestirred itself again.

-- Sir Harold Evans, author of The American Century


Winston Churchill was one-half American and he journeyed to the U.S. many times over a span of sixty-six years. In Churchill and America , the incomparable Martin Gilbert tells the fascinating story of the man who embodied the trans-Atlantic alliance that still endures.

-- James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys

Author Bio
Sir Martin Gilbert is one of our most distinguished historians. Born in 1936, he was appointed Churchill's official biographer in 1968. Since then he has written numerous bestselling works of biography and history, including his seminal six-volume life of Winston Churchill. For more information visit www.martingilbert.com