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He had always had an interest in the military, and he pursued a career that combined writing and military action, utilizing his mother’s influence in the aristocracy to go where the action was. The family’s wealth mostly squandered, Winston was required to find a career, unique from his aristocratic peers who were used to living off of their families’ wealth. His father died young after being marginalized from a career that put him on the threshold of England’s prime minister-ship. Never close to his father–if at all–Winston would write pleading letters to his mother to come visit him during the years he would spend at prep school.
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Along the way, Winston proved to be a poor student and got himself kicked out of several schools. His lived as colorfully and dangerously as any writer could have imagined, in spite of a beginning that was marked by comfort and wealth.īorn to a wealthy aristocratic family, Winston was raised by a nanny while his father and mother (an American) were off gallivanting with the nobles of England. Churchill isn’t just a great leader, but a product of both the past and the future.
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Churchill’s life straddled change in eras, and Manchester doesn’t just write Churchill’s biography, but a history of the time that is full and vibrant. Manchester paints a picture of life at the end of one era–the Victorian–and beginning of the next, the Edwardian. I’ve read complaints that Manchester uses perhaps too much detail, but I could not have enjoyed it more. William Manchester not only tells the story of what is perhaps Britain’s greatest prime minister, he does it in fantastic detail. There are few political leaders that have captured my imagination like Winston Churchill does.