Historical Writings Of Winston Churchill

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Presents a historiographical analysis. Contends Churchill was no historian in spite of his writing talent and vast output of books. Commends his style. Popularity of his writings and lack of critical acclaim. Contends his writings were not scholarly because he imposed his personality and personal experiences in everything he wrote.

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"THE HISTORIES OF WINSTON CHURCHILL:
A HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ANALYSIS

Winston Churchill turned out literally millions of words in his considerable lifetime he died at ninety in 1965 and from the beginning, his copy was gorgeous (as some editors would put it). He thrilled readers with reportage of his own turn-of-the-century military adventures in India and South Africa. He described, analyzed and speculated upon a host of topics for eager magazine readers in the decades between the two world wars; he completed immense biographies of his own ancestors and other British bigwigs of the past; and he capped his career in the 1950s with a six-volume history of The Second World War and his four-volume A History of the English Speaking Peoples.

Churchill s writings were immensely popular. An impoverished arist ..."

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