Guest my goal was to state that and that is what i set out to do . Host what did you learn . Guest oh, lots. The book was much harder to write than i thought it would be. By the time i studied the book i was studying churchhill for 40 years. I made the author terrible mistake think it would be relatively easy compared to other things i had written. Much harder than i thought. When you write down and give account of main things in his life, things he thought, things he stood for, things he advocated or defended, turns out they relate to one another. More deeply and in more complex ways than i had imagined and i came to understand them better i hope and think and it was a painful process. Host did you approach this book from a fans perspective . Guest well, im a scholar, right . I dont think i can write anything down that i cant defend but i do admire churchhill very much. I think he was a very great man. If you just list things he achieved, this very hard to name anybody in all of histo
Complex ways than i had imagined. And i came to understand him better, i hope and think, and it was a painful process. Host did you approach this book from a fans perspective . Guest well, im a scholar, right . So i dont think that i can write anything down that i cant defend. But i do admire churchill very much. I i think he was a very great man, and i think if you just list the things he achieved, its just very hard to name anybody in all of history like him. Its just a fact. Winston churchill wrote 50 books, and theyre worth reading. And thats just by itself, doesnt that separate him from nearly everybody, politician or not . And then theres this fact, and its a big fact and one of the great turning points of world history, he was there, and he did things, he was there in the place that mattered the most for about three months. And he did things that nobody else there would have done. So he did alter history in major ways whether for good or ill. There are arguments about that. So b
Telling the story of Sir Roger Casement’s life is a challenge for any biographer. In the land of his birth, he is remembered as a national hero. His remains lie in the Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin beside the graves of Daniel O’Connell and Charles Stewart Parnell. He is there because he was hanged in Pentonville