![]() ![]() More unusually, the author makes him lovable. The case it makes for Churchill’s greatness is incontestable. His certainly knocks into a cocked hat Boris Johnson’s boisterously self-referential effort of a few years ago. ![]() Even during his so-called “wilderness years” in the 1930s, when Churchill found himself out of government for almost the first time since 1906, and scorned for his warnings about appeasing Hitler’s Germany, he continued to lay the foundations of his future wartime leadership.īy drawing on many previously untapped sources, Mr Roberts has produced a more complete picture of his subject than any previous biography. ![]() Inspired by the example of his ancestor the first Duke of Marlborough, he set about constructing a career that would turn this inkling into a reality. ![]() Despite almost abusive neglect by his parents-the dazzling but self-destructive Conservative politician Lord Randolph and his beautiful, rich American wife-Churchill saw in himself the possibility of greatness. The theme running through Andrew Roberts’s terrific new biography is this acute sense of destiny, first manifest when Churchill was a teenager. ![]()
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