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
The book was much harder trait than i thought. By the time i started the book ive been studying churchill for about 40 years. It takes that long, he wrote so much. I made the terrible mistake of thinking it will be relatively easy compared to the things i had written, its much harder than i had thought because when you start writing it down and start trying to get an account of the main themes in his life and thinks he advocated or defended it turns out they relate to one another more deeply and in more complex ways than i had imagined. I came to understand him better and i hope and think, it was a painful process. Did you approach this book from a fans perspective . Im a scholar so i dont think i can write anything down but i cant defend. But i admire churchill very much. I think it is a great man. I think if you would list the things he was chief its very hard to name anybody in all of history like him. Its just a fact. Winston churchill wrote 50 books and they are worth reading. Tha
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
When he was about 20 of the Joseph Chamberlain a great man father of neville chamberlain, partner of is the father said that the young churchills should go into politics. I dont think that i could never keep up with the pace of writing and speaking that would be required and look what he did. He made a lot of money. He turndown enormous amount of stuff. He called them potboilers. But some of them are profound. I am teaching a eight class this term on contemporary george wells and c. S. Lewis and those for people are very different people. To have something similar to say about modern times. End with mass effects of modern life to those standards of those people. Yes he did have friends. He had some great young man friends that persisted through life there is a man named Reggie Barnes that went to cuba with the churchill. And then to tell all of war office what was going on with the cuban people. And they became friends there. And they remained and correspondence. He was very close to w