Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life By Gretchen Rubin

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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.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, and an investigation of the contradictions and complexities that haunt biography. Gretchen Craft Rubin gives readers, in a single volume, the kind of rounded view usually gained only by reading dozens of conventional biographies.With penetrating insight and vivid anecdotes, Rubin makes Churchill accessible and meaningful to twenty-first-century readers with forty 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.In crisp, energetic language, Rubin creates a new form for presenting a great figure of history—and brings to full realization the depiction of a man too fabulous for any novelist to construct, too complicated for even the longest narrative to describe, and too valuable ever to be forgotten.

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This work encourages the reader to consider Churchill's life--and by extension, the life of any person about whom a biography is written--in terms of how characters are depicted in fiction. This is a brilliant insight. A biographer selects from many facts available about the subject, and often brings a positive or negative attitude about the subject. In this, they are little different from a novelist building up a protagonist or an antagonist.Rubin admires Churchill and has a positive outlook on him. Yet she is well aware of revisionist biographies of him, and unsavory aspects of his life. She dispassionately displays both sides in this short book. To her great credit, because the comparisons are never very long, the reader is not left throwing their hands in the air and saying, "I can't tell *what* to think about Churchill!" Rubin's very point is that, though they share certain features with fictional heroes (and villains), real lives are complicated and are not purely good or purely despicable. She gets this point across without much ado or tiring the reader.At the beginning the book seemed as if it might be similar to what I think of as the "modern style" of lay historical books--informal, and not very profound (despite what the description on Amazon seemed to foretell). But very slowly, by about #12 or so, I began grasping what she was about. She got more and more into character, aspects of the novel, looking at classical tragedy. By the end I was swept off my feet by the profundity and uniqueness of the approach, which I felt had succeeded brilliantly.I had read other biographies of Churchill, both admiring and revisionist. I felt I was able to grasp *both* the "admirable" and the "not-so-admirable" Churchill, so that the author's (and my own) finally coming down in favor of Churchill, warts and all, was done in a perfectly clear-eyed manner.You will find out nearly as much about how stories work (the construction of character, goals, setting, and plot which is the very stuff of narrative) as you will about Churchill's life. This two-for-one is a surprise and a delight, and I heartily recommend it to you.

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