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Mr. Churchill in the White House : the untold story of a prime minister and two presidents  Cover Image Book Book

Mr. Churchill in the White House : the untold story of a prime minister and two presidents / Robert Schmuhl.

Schmuhl, Robert, (author.).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781324093428
  • ISBN: 1324093420
  • Physical Description: xx, 350 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Liverlight Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2024]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue -- Alone no more -- Defeat and disgrace -- 'Winston's travelling circus' -- Forward toward victory -- A secret rendezvous -- The cold race -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Three addresses written in the White House -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary, etc.:
"Well into the twenty-first century, Winston Churchill continues to be the subject of scores of books. Biographers portray him as a soldier, statesman, writer, painter, and even a daredevil, but Robert Schmuhl, the noted author and journalist, may be the first to depict him as a demanding, indeed exhausting White House guest. For the British prime minister, America's most famous residence was "the summit of the United States," and staying weeks on end with the president as host enhanced his global influence and prestige, yet what makes Churchill's sojourns so remarkable are their duration at critical moments in twentieth-century history ... Drawing on years of research, Schmuhl not only contextualizes the unprecedented time Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt spent together between 1941 and 1945, but he also depicts the individual figures involved: from Churchill himself to "General Ike," as he affectionately called Dwight D. Eisenhower, to Harry Truman, and not to mention the formidable Eleanor Roosevelt, who resented Churchill's presence in the White House and wanted him to occupy the nearby Blair House instead (which, predictably, he did not do)."-- Amazon.com.
Subject: Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
Great Britain > Foreign relations > United States.
Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Genre: Biographies.

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