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Becoming Winston Churchill: The Untold Story of Young Winston and His American Mentor Paperback – July 1, 2009

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As a young man Winston Churchill was greatly influenced by Bourke Cockran, a charismatic New York City congressman who was Churchill's widowed mother’s lover and friend. Cockran was a brilliant trial lawyer and adviser to American presidents. He took young Winston under his wing and gave him unusual insights into the politics of the time. It was a particularly important relationship that shaped Churchill’s thinking and political outlook; it also provided a window into the United States that he would take with him all his life. The story is also biographical, told in part as fiction and reproducing for the first time the private correspondence between the two men.

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Michael McMenamin writes extensively on Churchill in Finest Hour, the quarterly journal of the Churchill Center, and Reason. He is a first amendment attorney and lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Curt Zoller is the author of the Annotated Bibliography of Works About Sir Winston S. Churchill (2004), "The most thorough work of its type." He lives in California.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Enigma Books (July 1, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 300 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1929631871
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1929631872
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.1 x 0.6 x 9.1 inches

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Michael McMenamin is the author of the critically acclaimed Becoming Winston Churchill, The Untold Story of Young Winston and His American Mentor [Hardcover, Greenwood 2007; Paperback, Enigma 2009]. He is an editorial board member of Finest Hour, the quarterly journal of the Churchill Centre and Museum in London and a contributing editor for the libertarian magazine Reason. His work has appeared in two Reason anthologies and The Churchills in Ireland, 1660-1965, Corrections and Controversies [Irish Academic Press, 2012]

Patrick McMenamin, the other half of the father-son writing team, is an award-winning journalist who has produced stories for John Stossel at ABC News 20/20 and Fox News Channel; for Judge Andrew Napolitano at Freedom Watch on Fox Business Channel; and is now at HuffPostLive. He is a Phi Beta Kappa cum laude graduate of the University of Rochester with departmental honors in 20th century European history and Film Studies.

The McMenamins' award-winning "Winston Churchill Thriller" series features Churchill’s fictional god-daughter, the globe-trotting Hearst photojournalist Mattie McGary, and is set during the period 1929-1939, Churchill’s “Wilderness Years”, when he was out of power, out of favor and a lone voice warning against the rising danger posed by Hitler and Nazi Germany. Churchill is the catalyst who sends Mattie on her adventures and she frequently teams up with Bourke Cockran, Jr., the fictional son and namesake of Churchill's real-life Irish-American mentor.

All three of their Churchill Thrillers--The DeValera Deception (2010),The Parsifal Pursuit (2011) and The Gemini Agenda (2012)--were named Grand Prize Winners for Fiction by the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. They also received Book of the Year Awards for Thriller/Suspense and Historical Fiction from ForeWord Reviews as well as awards for Historical Fiction from ReaderViews.

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Richard C. Geschke

The Forming of a Political Agenda on a Blank Sheet of Paper!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 2, 2009

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This remarkable book written by Michael McMenamin and Curt Zoller will stand by itself as a classic study into the formation of political thought of the 20th Century's greatest persona. As stated in Chapter 1 of this rather short and precise study of two individuals, not much has been written in any great detail about the relationship of sage Bourke Cockran and the youthful Winston Churchill.
As many books that have been written about Churchill, just a select group of writers have gone into any study about the Cockran/Churchill relationship. Of all the writers, I find that William Manchester's take of this friendship was the most thorough in his first volume "The Last Lion Winston Spencer Churchill Visions of Glory 1874-1932.
This book goes into great detail about the relationship of Bourke Cockran and Winston Churchill from 1895 to 1923. Without going into specifics of this relationship you will find this great American orator and political behemoth will help to form the young political mind of Winston Churchill. Bourke Cockran and Jenny Churchill were lovers and later long term friends. It was Jenny Churchill who sought out Mr. Cockran to be Winston's political mentor and in reality a father figure.
This splendid book is a combination of historical fiction and actual letter correspondence of all the major players in this late Victorian and Edwardian period of English history. The scenarios and formation of political thought will bring new perspectives into the oeuvre of Churchillian thought. Hard to believe that Winston's political mind was once but a blank sheet of paper.
This book shows excellent writing and presentation, it is very original and thought provoking. 5 Stars!! No Problem!!!

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Important Addition to the Churchill Historiography

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Bourke Cockran was a major American political figure at the turn of the 20th century. He was, by temperament and choice, an outsider, an independent. A New York Democrat, he did not hesitate to cross party lines on points of principle. He was a renowned public speaker, whose influence would be felt in the oratory of a succession of future leaders. He loved beautiful women--including Jenny Churchill, mother of Sir Winston Churchill.

Young Winston Churchill was recognized for his brilliance, yet also seen as erratic and self-promoting. In his late father's shadow, Churchill was viewed by some as altogether unstable, perhaps by inheritance. At the same time, bereft of fatherly guidance, he tended toward truculent relationships with authority figures.

Into this space Bourke Cockran came into young Churchill's life.

Their relationship is ably recounted in 'Becoming Winston Churchill.' The parallels of the younger student and the older teacher are unmistakable. Cockran's influence is marked. One might even say, given that Churchill's subsequent, historic leadership, that Cockran's voice reaches us through the younger man.

Whether to better understand Churchill's life, or for a meditation on mentorship, or to rediscover a neglected and consequential American leader, 'Becoming Winston Churchill' is a terrific read. Highly recommended.

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Steve Dittmer

Great experience

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Book was pristine. Delivery great. Not a well-known book but very fascinating for those curious about both Churchill and Cockran. Historically, stunning how fate shapes happenings. Interplay between deaths in the lives of Cockran and Churchill's mother, their chance meeting and Cockran's desire to please Jennie Churchill started events crucial to the development of Churchill as a speaker, as a statesman and champion of free market capitalism. Puts the "why," the human motivations behind key events in Churchill's life and, consequently, world history. Immediately, this book put two books I was reading on Teddy Roosevelt on the back burner while I read this one.

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Donald E. Jakeway

Winston Churchill

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I have been a student of Sir Winston Churchill my entire life. Long enough to consider myself a Churchill historian and serious collector of any and all items related to his life. My personal Churchill library is extensive and I am indeed proud to know Michael McMenamin, author of "Becoming Winston Churchill" and to add his book to my library! Michael has done an outstanding job sharing with us the important influence that Mr. Bourke Cockran had on Winston as he formed his personal and political beliefs early in his life. He obviously was regarded a close personal friend, mentor and perhaps even as a respected father figure. I recommend this book highly! Donald E. Jakeway

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Gilbert Michaud

a must for churchillians

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for people really interested in the only mentor churchill ever had this book is a must have

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