Churchill on Courage: Timeless Wisdom for Preserving [Hardcover]

Frederick Talbott (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1996

Undoubtedly one of the greatest orators of our time, Winston Churchill's unique ability to encourage, motivate, and invigorate is demonstrated on every page of Churchill on Courage. Frederick Talbott has created a masterful collection of quotations accompanied by contextual details for each. This is a remarkable little volume that's sure to inspire and enlighten.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc; Gift edition (October 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785274103
• ISBN-13: 978-0785274100
• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,281,200 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

FREDERICK TALBOTT serves as a consultant, trainer, coach, writer, and convention speaker focusing on leadership communications; positive leadership; persuasion, influence, and motivation; sales management communication; creativity; the power and process of foresight and strategic visioning; dynamic transformational thinking, applying problem finding, analysis, and solving and opportunity identification and development; conflict resolution (negotiation, conciliation, and mediation applications); news media relations; crisis communications; dynamic professional communications coaching; team building and leadership (including team reunification and peacekeeping); communications law and ethics; humor in the workplace; strategic thinking; time and change management; and client-focused convention and meeting speeches featuring a blend of applied wisdom, storytelling, and humor. He also specializes in powerhouse advertising copy and campaign development. And plays a powerhouse blues harmonica.

He created The Talbott Method, a process that teaches participants how to overcome speech anxiety (stage fright) and convert the resulting energy into dynamic advocacy. Corporate, government, association, and educational clients have included IBM, Goldman Sachs, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USF Holland, Bank Administration Institute, Bristol-Myers Squibb, TAP Pharmaceuticals, New York Life Insurance, the U.S. Army, the U.S. Navy, the Tennessee Valley Authority, Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI), Bell Atlantic, BellSouth (now AT&T), the State Government Affairs Council, and others. He is a powerful and positive convention and meeting speaker, executive and management trainer, and counselor; a master speech and advocacy coach; an award-winning journalist; a public relations and crisis communications specialist; attorney; mediator; consultant; humorist; author; and songwriter.

Fred is the author of Shakespeare on Leadership, Churchill on Courage, and his recent business humor book JJ's Business Bullets. He is a veteran investigative journalist whose work was heralded as innovative, objective, and often bold and courageous. As a humorist, he contributed material to NBC's Saturday Night Live ("Weekend Update"), Jeff MacNelly's "Shoe" cartoon, and by request taught humor writing to the White House speechwriting team in the summer of 1991. From 1993-2009 he taught leadership communications to more than 3,000 students from 84 nations at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management. He led the journalism sequence, management communications, and standup comedy programs at Old Dominion University from 1983-1993. He is the first MBA professor in the nation to require every student to perform a standup comedy routine. Fred's teaching has been featured in The New York Times, Training, Training & Development, Entrepreneur, and on CNBC's Power Lunch. His public relations advice has been featured on page 1 of The Wall Street Journal. He was honored with major Vanderbilt University awards for his promotion of opportunities for persons with disabilities, affirmative action, and the advancement of diversity initiatives. He was named the university's outstanding faculty member by the Vanderbilt football team in 2007.

During 1998 and 1999 Fred helped more than 800 American and overseas banks eliminate public fear of the Year 2000, or Y2K, challenge and turn the event into a positive customer relations and marketing success.

Fred holds a J.D. and a master's degree in journalism from the University of South Carolina and a bachelor's degree in journalism from Florida Southern College. He is a member of the South Carolina Bar and has earned mediation certification in South Carolina and Tennessee. Now residing in Naples, FL, he is completing various book and screenwriting projects.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiration for today's battles, April 12, 2000

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Tom Glaviano (Wilmington, North Carolina, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Churchill on Courage: Timeless Wisdom for Preserving (Hardcover)

With so many self-help books on the market today, it's easy to forget that perhaps the greatest lessons come not from today's hottest new talkshow guest, but from those who have weathered history's darkest times. Frederick Talbott has captured the essence of one of history's greatest speakers simply by letting him speak for himself. Winston Churchill's words, spoken in the most trying of times, can give a person a great deal of courage and motivation to cope with today's daily battles.

Talbott gives a brief background with each quotation to put the words into context. And that is enough. The beauty and power of Churchill's words and character come through without any additional analysis or insight. And that is the beauty of this book.

A must for any Churchill fan or anyone whose daily battles sometimes seem too harsh to bear.

4.0 out of 5 stars quote book, March 30, 2004

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Damon Herrin "yager24" (San Antonio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Churchill on Courage: Timeless Wisdom for Preserving (Hardcover)

Great book for great quotes. Useful for public speaking when you need something to say and just can't find the right words. I've also given this book to several friends who were going through personal issues and wanted to read something encouraging and uplifting.