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Great Contemporaries is a collection of 25 short biographical essays about famous people, written by Winston Churchill. The original collection was published in 1937 and included 21 essays mainly written between 1928 and 1931.
Great Contemporaries. Insightful biographical sketches of major historical figures of the twentieth century, from the incomparable British statesman. Winston S. Churchill was...
26. Aug. 2022 · Great Contemporaries. by. Winston S. Churchill. Publication date. 1959. Collection. internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled. Contributor. Internet Archive.
17. Okt. 2008 · The central theme of Churchill’s collection is the group of British statesmen who dominated politics at the end of the last and beginning of this century: Balfour, Chamberlain, Rosebery, Morley, Asquith, Curzon.
7. Apr. 2017 · This is a collection of 25 short biographical essays about famous people, written and published by Winston Churchill before his first tenure as Britain’s Prime...
Written in the decade before Churchill became prime minister, the essays in Great Contemporaries focus on the challenges of statecraft at a time when the democratic revolution was toppling older...
19. Feb. 2013 · Great Contemporaries was one of three books of essays, all published earlier in magazines or newspapers, that Churchill proposed to his publisher Thornton Butterworth early in his “wilderness years,” his most fruitful decade as a writer. Thoughts and Adventures, published in 1932, included essays on spies, cartoons, flying, and the future.
