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　　A WALL STREET JOURNAL SUMMER PICK

A WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER

Warrior and writer, genius and crank, rider in the British

cavalry’s last great charge and inventor of the tank, Winston

Churchill led Britain to fight alone against Nazi Germany in the

fateful year of 1940 and set the standard for leading a democracy

at war. With penetrating insight and vivid anecdotes, Gretchen

Rubin makes Churchill accessible and meaningful to

twenty-first-century readers by analyzing the many contrasting

views of the man: he was an alcoholic, he was not; he was an

anachronism, he was a visionary; he was a racist, he was a

humanitarian; he was the most quotable man in the history of the

English language, he was a bore.

Like no other portrait of its famous subject, Forty Ways to Look

at Winston Churchill is a dazzling display of facts more improbable

than fiction. It brings to full realization the depiction of a man

too fabulous for any novelist to construct, too complex for even

the longest narrative to describe, and too significant ever to be

forgotten.

Introduction

1. Churchill as Liberty's Champion: Heroic View

2. Churchill as Failed Statesman: Critical View

3. Churchill's Contemporaries: Whom He Knew

4..Churchill's Finest Hour  May 28, 1940:The Decisive

Moment

5. Churchill as Leader: Suited to High Office?

6. Churchill's Genius with Words: His GreatestStrength'

7. Churchill's Eloquence,: His Exact Words

8. Churchill in Symbols: Metonyrny

9. Churchill, True: In a Single .Word

10. Churchill's Desire eor Fame: His Motive

11. Churchill as Depressive: T'he ""Black Dog"?

12. Churchill's Disdain: His Dominant Quality

13. Churchill's Belligerence: His Defining Characteristic

14. Churchill's Time Line: Key Events

15. Churchill as Son: His Most Formative Role

16. Churchill as Father: A Good Parent?

17. Churchill the Painter: His Favorite Pastime

18. Churchill the Spendthrift: A .Weakness

19. Conflicting Views of Churchill: How OthersSaw Him

20. Churchill in Tears: Telling Detail

21. Churchill the Drinker: An Alcoholic?

22. Churchill in Context: Facts at a Glance

23. Churchill and Sex: Too Interesting to Ignore

24. Churchill as Husband: A Happy Marriage?

25. Churchill's Island Story: His Myth

26. Churchill in Photographs: How He ChangedThrough Time

27. Churchill as the Hero of a Novel: The Imaginedand the

Real

28. Churchill's Destiny: HoW He Saw Himself

29. Churchill the Imperialist: His Cause

30. Churchill's Empire: How He Saw the World

31. Churchill and Roosevelt: Friends as Well as Allies?

32. Churchill's Imagination: How He Saw Histor?

33. Churchill and Hitler: Nemesis

34. Churchill Exposed: Missing Information Supplied

35. Churchill True or False: Challenged Assumptions

36. The Tragedy of Winston Churchill, Englishman:The Meaning of His

Life

37. Churchill in Portrait: A Likeness

38. Churchill's Last Days: How He Died

39. My Churchill:Tudgment

40. Remember Winston Churchill: Epitaph

Notes

Select Bibliography"

ACknowledgments

Index

　　GRETCHEN CRAFT RUBIN received her undergraduate and law

degrees from Yale and was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal.

She clerked for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the U.S. Supreme

Court and served as counsel to Federal Communications Commissions

Chairman Reed Hundt. She teaches at Yale Law School and School of

Management and is the author of Power Money Fame Sex: A User’s

Guide.

　　Visit the author’s Web site at www.gretchenrubin.com

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　　?A compelling read . . . Gretchen Rubin has produced a shrewd,

original, and utterly engaging book, one that achieves the

considerable feat of distilling an epic life to its essence while

deconstructing the art of biography. Forty Ways to Look at Winston

Churchill does for the writing of history what Wallace Stevens?s

?Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird? did for poetry?both does

it and shows us how it?s done.?

　　?JAMES ATLAS

　　Author of Bellow: A Biography

　　?At last! A book to put all the other books on Churchill into

perspective. The Great Man was in danger of becoming hidden by the

forest of verbiage in his memory. Gretchen Rubin cuts a clear path

to her subject, and along the way takes the reader on a fascinating

and hilarious journey.?

　　?AMANDA FOREMAN

　　Bestselling author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire

　　?Was there ever a better subject for biography? Heroic, petty,

noble, selfish, courageous, devious, grandiloquent, plain-speaking,

generous, tyrannical, Churchill was all these and more. Rubin

strives to capture the essence of her larger-than-life subject not

through a head-on assault, but by circling him and taking snapshots

from a multiplicity of angles. Her Forty Ways to Look at Winston

Churchill is a feat of intelligent compression, a stereoscopic

portrait for the space age, a biography in miniature, and not

least, a rattling good read.?

　　?MICHAEL SCAMMELL

　　Author of Solzhenitsyn: A Biography

　　From the Hardcover edition. -- Review

书籍介绍

A WALL STREET JOURNAL SUMMER PICK

A WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER

Warrior and writer, genius and crank, rider in the British cavalry’s last great charge and inventor of the tank, Winston Churchill led Britain to fight alone against Nazi Germany in the fateful year of 1940 and set the standard for leading a democracy at war. With penetrating insight and vivid anecdotes, Gretchen Rubin makes Churchill accessible and meaningful to twenty-first-century readers by analyzing the many contrasting views of the man: he was an alcoholic, he was not; he was an anachronism, he was a visionary; he was a racist, he was a humanitarian; he was the most quotable man in the history of the English language, he was a bore.

Like no other portrait of its famous subject, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill is a dazzling display of facts more improbable than fiction. It brings to full realization the depiction of a man too fabulous for any novelist to construct, too complex for even the longest narrative to describe, and too significant ever to be forgotten.