Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian. - Hardcover

Lukacs, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300097697 ISBN 13: 9780300097696

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2002

Synopsis

John Lukacs has spent a lifetime considering the complex personality and statesmanship of Winston Churchill. In previous books Lukacs has told the story of Churchill's titanic struggle with Adolf Hitler in the early days of World War II. Now, in Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian., he turns his attention to Churchill the man and visionary statesman. Each chapter of this book provides an essential portrait of Churchill. Lukacs treats Churchill's vital relationships with Stalin, Roosevelt, and Eisenhower, as well as his complex, farsighted political vision concerning the coming of World War II and the Cold War. Lukacs also assesses Churchill's abilities as a historian looking backward into the origins of the conflicts of which he was so much a part. In addition, the author examines the often contradictory ways Churchill has been perceived by critics and admirers alike.

The last chapter is a powerful and deeply moving evocation of the three days Lukacs spent in London attending Churchill's funeral in 1965. In Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian., Lukacs deftly sets forth the essence of this towering figure of twentieth-century history with the consummate mastery of a great historian.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Also available by John Lukacs: Five Days in London, May 1940; The Duel; At the End of an Age; The Last European War; A Thread of Years

From the Back Cover:

A clear-eyed view of Winston Churchill, the workings of his historical imagination, and his successes and failures as a statesman, by the celebrated historian of World War II and best-selling author of Five Days in London, May 1940.

"We are in the presence of one of the most powerful, as well as one of the most learned, minds [of the] century."-Conor Cruise O'Brien

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0300097697
• ISBN 13: 9780300097696
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200