Thoughts And Adventures
by Winston Churchill /
2016 / English / Audio
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This wide-ranging collection of essays allows the contemporary
reader to grasp the extraordinary variety and depth of the
statesman's mature thoughts on questions, both grave and gay,
facing modern man.
This wide-ranging collection of essays allows the contemporary
reader to grasp the extraordinary variety and depth of the
statesman's mature thoughts on 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.
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 as the 'pot-boilers', first published in
magazines and newspapers, by which he was able to support his
family and live like a lord without inherited wealth, is like
being invited to dinner at his 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, dominated by himself.
Reading these essays, originally dictated late at night in the
1920s in his study as the 'pot-boilers', first published in
magazines and newspapers, by which he was able to support his
family and live like a lord without inherited wealth, is like
being invited to dinner at his 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, dominated by himself.