Author: University of Pennsylvania. LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Benjamin Franklin, Winston Churchill
Author: University of Pennsylvania. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Benjamin Franklin, Winston Churchill
Author: University of Pennsylvania. LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 55
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Benjamin Franklin, Winston Churchill; an Exhibition Celebrating the Bicentennial of the University of Pennsylvania Library, at the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, May 8-June 15, 1951
Author: Charles Wendell DavidBenjamin Franklin, Winston Churchill. An exhibition celebrating the bicentennial of the University of Pennsylvannia Library, at the University Museum ... 1951
Author: University of Pennsylvania (PHILADELPHIA). Free Museum of Science and Art, afterwards University MuseumPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 55
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Benjamin Franklin, Winston Churchill; an Exhibition Celebrating the Bicentennial of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, May 8-June 15, 1951
Author: University of Pennsylvania. LibraryPublisher:
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Pages : 55
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Benjamin Franklin, Winston Churchill
Author: Andrew H. BrownPublisher:
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Category : Channel catfish
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Fellows of the Royal Society
Author: Source WikipediaPublisher: Booksllc.Net
ISBN: 9781230689708
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 196. Chapters: Winston Churchill, Benjamin Franklin, William Ewart Gladstone, Charles Darwin, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Joseph Chamberlain, Isaac Newton, Clement Attlee, Thomas Henry Huxley, Pedro II of Brazil, Richard Dawkins, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Joseph Priestley, Lord Byron, Alfred Russel Wallace. Excerpt: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) was a British politician, best known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, he served as Prime Minister twice (1940-45 and 1951-55). A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature and was the first person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States. Churchill was born into the aristocratic family and was the grandson of the 7th Duke of Marlborough. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a charismatic politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer; his mother, Jennie Jerome, was an American socialite. As a young army officer, he saw action in British India, the Sudan, and the Second Boer War. He gained fame as a war correspondent and wrote books about his campaigns. At the forefront of politics for fifty years, he held many political and cabinet positions. Before the First World War, he served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary, and First Lord of the Admiralty as part of the Asquith Liberal government. During the war, he continued as First Lord of the Admiralty until the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign caused his departure from government. He then briefly resumed active army service on the Western Front as commander of...
The Ben Franklin Factor
Author: James C. HumesPublisher: Quill
ISBN: 9780688140755
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Mr. Churchill in the White House: The Untold Story of a Prime Minister and Two Presidents
Author: Robert SchmuhlPublisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1324093439
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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“Robert Schmuhl admirably captures the vitality and cunning of Churchill’s D.C. residency with consummate skill, colorful anecdotes, and crisp historical analysis.” —Douglas Brinkley 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. From his first visit in 1941 to his last one eighteen years later, Churchill made himself at home in the White House, seeking to disprove Benjamin Franklin’s adage that guests, like fish, smell after three days. When obliged to be attired, Churchill shuffled about in velvet slippers and a tailored-for-air-raids “siren suit,” resembling a romper. In retrospect, these extended stays at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue take on a new level of diplomatic and military significance. Just imagine, for example, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky spending weeks at America’s most powerful address, discussing war strategy and access to weaponry, as Churchill did during the 1940s. 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). Mr. Churchill in the White House presents a new perspective on the politician, war leader, and author through his intimate involvement with one Democratic and one Republican president during his two terms as prime minister. Indeed, Churchill had his own “Special Relationship” with these two presidents. Diaries, letters, government documents, and memoirs supply the archival foundation and color for each Churchill visit, providing a wholly novel perspective on one of history’s most perplexing and many-faceted figures.
The Complete Works of Winston Churchill
Author: Winston ChurchillPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465510621
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 7250
Book Description
I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters. There, on the borders of a creek that runs into the Yadkin River, in a cabin that was chinked with red mud, I came into the world a subject of King George the Third, in that part of his realm known as the province of North Carolina. The cabin reeked of corn-pone and bacon, and the odor of pelts. It had two shakedowns, on one of which I slept under a bearskin. A rough stone chimney was reared outside, and the fireplace was as long as my father was tall. There was a crane in it, and a bake kettle; and over it great buckhorns held my father's rifle when it was not in use. On other horns hung jerked bear's meat and venison hams, and gourds for drinking cups, and bags of seed, and my father's best hunting shirt; also, in a neglected corner, several articles of woman's attire from pegs. These once belonged to my mother. Among them was a gown of silk, of a fine, faded pattern, over which I was wont to speculate. The women at the Cross-Roads, twelve miles away, were dressed in coarse butternut wool and huge sunbonnets. But when I questioned my father on these matters he would give me no answers. My father was—how shall I say what he was? To this day I can only surmise many things of him. He was a Scotchman born, and I know now that he had a slight Scotch accent. At the time of which I write, my early childhood, he was a frontiersman and hunter. I can see him now, with his hunting shirt and leggings and moccasins; his powder horn, engraved with wondrous scenes; his bullet pouch and tomahawk and hunting knife. He was a tall, lean man with a strange, sad face. And he talked little save when he drank too many "horns," as they were called in that country. These lapses of my father's were a perpetual source of wonder to me,—and, I must say, of delight. They occurred only when a passing traveller who hit his fancy chanced that way, or, what was almost as rare, a neighbor. Many a winter night I have lain awake under the skins, listening to a flow of language that held me spellbound, though I understood scarce a word of it.