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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An altogether absorbing popular biography . . . The heroic Churchill is in these pages, but so is the little boy writing forlorn letters to the father who all but ignored him.”—People
When Winston Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace in 1874, Imperial Britain stood…
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This is another book (or better, a trilogy) that made me laugh and cry. If you don’t believe me, just read Winston Churchill’s stirring love letters to his wife—he called her “Cat,” she called him “Pug”—in the first volume. They are a deeply moving and eloquent testimony to a devotion that continued unabated throughout Churchill’s life.
No wonder he was the only head of state awarded the Nobel Prize, not for peace, but for literature. And William Manchester writes so powerfully that he rivals Churchill’s prose. If you want to know what made Churchill tick and how he became one…
From Thomas' list on leadership bios to make you laugh and cry.
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