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Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future Paperback – June 15, 2009

by Winston S. Churchill (Author), James W. Muller (Editor)

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Book 4 of 5: Winston S. Churchill Essays and Other Works

More than any other book by Winston Churchill, the wide-ranging THOUGHTS AND ADVENTURES allows the contemporary reader to grasp the extraordinary variety and depth of Churchill’s mature thoughts on the questions, both grave and gay, facing modern man.

Churchill begins by asking what it would be like to live your life over again and ends by describing his love affair with painting. In between, he touches on subjects as diverse as spies, cartoons, submarines, elections, flying, and the future. Reading these essays—originally dictated late at night in the 1920s in his study, and by which he was able to support his family and live like a lord without inherited wealth—is like being invited to dinner at Churchill’s country seat at Chartwell, where the soup was limpid, Pol Roger Champagne flowed, the pudding had a theme, and Churchill entertained lucky visitors with vivid conversation. This ISI Books edition, with a new introduction and notes by James W. Muller, Academic Chairman of the Churchill Centre, recovers Churchill’s unforgettable table talk for a new generation of readers.

Book 4 of 5

Winston S. Churchill Essays and Other Works
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380 pages
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English
Publisher

Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Publication date

June 15, 2009
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6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
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9781935191469
ISBN-13

978-1935191469
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Winston S. Churchill, born at BlenheimPalace in Oxfordshire in 1874, fought in four wars on three continents and wrote five books before taking his seat in the House of Commons in 1901 at the age of twenty-six. He was Colonial Undersecretary, President of the Board of Trade, and Home Secretary in Liberal governments before becoming First Lord of the Admiralty in 1911. Through most of the 1930s, he held no cabinet office but remained a member of the House of Commons. He returned to the Admiralty in 1939 upon the outbreak of the Second World War, becoming Prime Minister and Minister of Defense in 1940. In summer 1945 the British public dismissed him from further conduct of their affairs, but he served again as Prime Minister from 1951 to 1955. The author of more than forty books, in 1953 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and in 1963 he was made an honorary citizen of the United States. He died in London in 1965.

James W. Muller is Professor of Political Science at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. He is a By-Fellow of ChurchillCollege, Cambridge, Academic Chairman of the Churchill Centre, and a recipient of the Farrow Award for Excellence in Churchill Studies. Muller earned his first degree and Ph.D. from Harvard and is cofounder of the Forty-Ninth State Fellows Program at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. He is editor of The Revival of Constitutionalism, Churchill as Peacemaker, and Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Speech Fifty Years Later, and of a new edition of Winston Spencer Churchill, The RiverWar: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1935191462
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Intercollegiate Studies Institute; Critical ed. edition (June 15, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 380 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781935191469
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1935191469
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.35 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches

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Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) has been called 'the greatest Briton'. An international statesman, orator, biographer, historian, author and Nobel Prize winner, his works remain in print with the world's leading publishers.

Educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, Winston spent several years in the army before becoming a newspaper correspondent and then an MP. His cabinet positions included First Lord of the Admiralty at the outbreak of the First World War and later Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940 and for five years led Britain though its 'finest hour'. Defeated in the July 1945 election, he was Leader of the Opposition until re-elected Prime Minister in 1951. He was knighted in 1953, the same year he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He stepped down as Prime Minister in 1955 and remained an MP until 1964.

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Erez Gilat

Great!

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2022

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Arrived super fast to the other side of the world, completely unused from the 90’s.

Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2022

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Churchill is the BEST

Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2021

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This book is a series of essays, all of which Churchill wrote before the 1940s. All are models of clarity, some of which are prophetic. A+++

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2020

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Thoughts., musings, and stories from Winston Churchill, written in his inimitable style. Makes me wish he had recorded them, too.

Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2013

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Contains several of churchill's essays. Not as varied and interesting as I'd thought - many are about war - but good nonetheless.

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T. Arthur George

Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects etc

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2009

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I am delighted with the book, although I have not read the entire text yet, but scanning this significant works is a bit daunting. I ordered two copies, one for my to read shelf, the other for my recently deceased brother's grandson, an elementary school student who loves history. I have taken up the mission to feed his inquisitive mind, staying ahead of his absorption. I am in hope that Churchill will catch fire for him as a noble topic for the rest of his life.

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Used book, like new condition, quick delivery

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I’m building a collection of classics. Will use these guys again.

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Reader0603

Incredibly interesting, and in Churchill's own words.

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2018

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We loved this book !

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Joe Blow

Typically British. Must read

Reviewed in Canada on March 30, 2020

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Well written, an easy read despite the complex events.
A fascinating work of history, the art of the possible. Brains beats brawn every time.
If the "Americans" could learn the British way of subtly and lateral thinking, we would all be better off.
Read all about it in this excellent work.

Edward

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 16, 2015

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very good

Narm

A journey through History

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Impressive words from one of the best leaders to walk the planet.

W. DAVID

Bottom drawer stuff, republished repeatedly

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 2, 2017

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Potboilers by a master scribe, written to pay the rent in a thin time, but as always, very well worth reading, for the thoughts as well as for the style.

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