Churchill in North America, 1929: A Three Month Tour of Canada and the United States - Softcover

Tolppanen, Bradley P.

9780786479221: Churchill in North America, 1929: A Three Month Tour of Canada and the United States

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786479221 ISBN 13: 9780786479221

Publisher: McFarland, 2014

Churchill took a three-month vacation to North America in the summer and fall of 1929, a little known event in his long career. In the company of his son Randolph, his brother Jack and his nephew Johnny, he toured Canada and the United States. Notable are Churchill's meetings with political, business, newspaper and entertainment figures (President Hoover, Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Bernard Baruch, William Randolph Hearst, Marion Davies and Charlie Chaplin) as well as his visits to such landmarks as the Grand Canyon, Lake Louise, Niagara Falls and Yosemite. The Churchills also visited a lumber camp, slaughterhouse and steel factory, went fishing on the Pacific Ocean and inspected the battlefields in Quebec and Virginia. They evaded Prohibition and gambled on the stock market (about to crash). It was on this trip that Churchill gained an understanding of the two countries firsthand and deepened his feelings for Canada and the United States.

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About the Author:

Bradley P. Tolppanan, a history librarian at Booth Library, Eastern Illinois University, lives in Charleston, Illinois.

Review:

"Tolppanen has done extensive original research"--Finest Hour; "They don't come any more specialized than this detailed survey of Churchill's North American tour between August and October 1929. Tolppanen's closely set, admirably footnoted and illustrated text gives virtually an hour by hour account of the journey. The author has done an exemplary job reporting this major North American encounter"--Hillsdale College.

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