"A short, fast-paced life that captures its subject's exuberant personality, taste for adventure and pivotal role in World War II." --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"[Johnson's] many ribald, eccentric, action-packed anecdotes bring Churchill to life so vividly, as such an august character, that the reader is enticed to acknowledge, but finally to cast away negative judgments of him... Johnson's writing is florid and funny, and he truly loves his subject. ...[A] great read" --Brooklyn Rail "Johnson is no buttoned-down academic historian. Like his more famous subject, the mayor has a journalist's eye for detail and ear for conversational language...his book succeeds in identifying the ways in which Churchill's personality proved as important as his policies in helping Britain cope with the dark task of winning World War II... it would be hard to read this book and imagine how today's world could have come into existence without his highly personal stagecraft."--The Carolina Journal Online "An interesting study of a truly fascinating historical figure... [Johnson] is a good, sound writer with a very distinct, unique voice...It is as if [he] were sitting with you on a long night in a pub over pints telling you everything he knows and think of Churchill." --PopMythology"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.
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