Churchill: The Prophetic Statesman
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (924 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1596987758 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 300 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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James Humes has produced a book that is unique as well as necessary for an understanding of statesmanship."—David Eisenhower, author and senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He had known leaders he esteemed as the greatest of statesmen…Churchill, however, was the leader he admired above all…In hundreds of studies of Churchill, no one else, remarkably enough, has focused on Churchill's predictions and prophecies. "Perhaps it is a cliche that a politician thinks of the next election and a statesman of the next generation, yet my grandfather found merit in the maxim
Humes, a bestselling author on Winston Churchill and a Churchill reenactor, is the first book to examine this extraordinary aspect of Churchill’s character.As a boy, Churchill predicted World War I. He envisioned the tankand later helped make his vision a reality. In 1899, he imagined the rise of a figure remarkably like Adolf Hitler. He foresaw the creation of Israel, a cause he also helped advance as a politician. As Richard Nixon said, Churchill was the only political leader in history who had his own crystal ball.” But Humes shows how Churchill’s intense study of history allowed him to predict the future, and how his experience as a h
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