Thoughts and adventures : Churchill reflects on spies, cartoons, flying, and the future /

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Author / Creator:	Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.
Imprint:	Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books, c2009.
Description:	xxxvi, 380 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Churchill, Winston, -- 1874-1965. Churchill, Winston, -- 1874-1965. Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- Biography. Politics and government Prime ministers. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1901-1936. Great Britain -- History, Military -- 20th century. Great Britain. Biography. Military history.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7843585

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Varying Form of Title:	Churchill reflects on spies, cartoons, flying, and the future
Other authors / contributors:	Muller, James W., 1953- Courtenay, Paul H. Barton, Alana L.
ISBN:	9781935191469 (paper : alk. paper) 1935191462 (paper : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. committed to retain 20170930 20421213 HathiTrust
Summary:	"More than any other book by Winston Churchill, the wide-ranging Thoughts and Adventures allows the contemporary reader to grasp the extraordinary variety and depth of Churchill's mature thoughts on the questions, both grave and gay, facing modern man. Churchill begins by asking what it would be like to live your life over again and ends by describing his love affair with painting. In between, he touches on subjects as diverse as spies, cartoons, submarines, elections, flying, and the future. Reading these essays - originally dictated late at night in the 1920s in his study, and by which he was able to support his family and live like a lord without inherited wealth - is like being invited to dinner at Churchill's country seat at Chartwell, where the soup was limpid, Pol Roger Champagne flowed, the pudding had a theme, and Churchill entertained lucky visitors with vivid conversation. This ISI Books edition, with a new introduction and notes by James W. Muller, Academic Chairman of the Churchill Centre, recovers Churchill's unforgettable table talk for a new generation of readers." -- Publisher's description.
Other form:	Online version: Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965. Thoughts and adventures. Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books, c2009

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Editor's Note on This Edition
Preface
A Second Choice
Cartoons and Cartoonists
Consistency in Politics
Personal Contacts
The Battle of Sidney Street
The German Splendour
My Spy Story
With the Grenadiers
`Plugstreet'
The U-Boat War
The Dover Barrage
Ludendorff's `All-or Nothing'
A Day with Clemenceau
In the Air
Election Memories
The Irish Treaty
Parliamentary Government and the Economic Problem
Shall We All Commit Suicide?
Mass Effects in Modern Life
Fifty Years Hence
Moses
Hobbies
Painting as a Pastime
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

Thoughts and adventures : Churchill reflects on spies, cartoons, flying, and the future /

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