Dinner With Churchill: Policy Making at the Dinner Table

Stelzer, Cita

ISBN 10: 1605985295 / ISBN 13: 9781605985299

Published by Pegasus Books, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dinner With Churchill: Policy Making at the Dinner Table
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1605985295
• ISBN 13: 9781605985299
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

An eloquent narrative of the great man's dinner-table diplomacy, this sumptuous volume is an intellectual treat for all admirers of Churchill.

A friend once said of Churchill “He is a man of simple tastes; he is quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.”          

But dinners for Churchill were about more than good food, excellent champagnes, and Havana cigars. “Everything” included the opportunity to use the dinner table both as a stage on which to display his brilliant conversational talents and to argue for the many policies he espoused over a long life.

In this entertaining book, Stelzer draws on previously untapped material, diaries of guests, and a wide variety of other sources to tell of some of the key dinners at which Churchill presided before, during and after World War II.

40 B&W Illustrations

About the Author

Cita Stelzer received a BA degree from Barnard College with a major in history, worked in educational publishing, and has been a stringer for the Financial Times. She founded a public relations firm in New York City and served as special aide to Mayor John Lindsay and to Governor Hugh Carey before joining an economic consulting firm specializing in regulatory policy.

She is an Advisor to the Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, a member of the Board of Advisers of the International Churchill Society, and a former Trustee of Wigmore Hall. Her first book, Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table, was published in 2011.