Churchill Defiant: Fighting on 1945-1955

LEAMING, BARBARA

Harper

New York Times bestselling biographer Barbara Leaming has written a riveting political dramaof the last ten years of Winston Churchill's public life.
 In Churchill Defiant, Leaming tells the tumultuous behind-the-scenes story of Churchill's refusal to retire after his 1945 electoral defeat, and the bare-knuckled political and personal battles that ensued. Her ground-breaking biography Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman, was the first to detail Churchill's extraordinary influence on Kennedy's thinking. Now in Churchill Defiant, Leaming gives us a vivid and compelling narrative that sheds fresh light on both the human dimension of Winston Churchill and on the struggles and achievements of his final years. At last, in Leaming's eloquent account, we understand the tangled web of personal relationships and rivalries, the intricate interplay of past and present, the looming sense of history that makes the story of these years as fascinating as anything in the extraordinary century-long saga of Winston Churchill's life.

Churchill Defiant: Fighting On: 1945-1955

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Churchill Defiant

Perennial

Orson Welles

Arts & Literature

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Orson Welles: A Biography

Penguin??Books

New York Times bestselling author Barbara Leaming answers the question: What was it like to be Mrs. John F. Kennedy during the dramatic thousand days of the Kennedy presidency? Here for the first time is the full story of the extravagant interplay of sex and politics that constitutes one of modern history's most spectacular dramas. Drawing from recently declassified top-secret material, as well as revelatory eyewitness accounts, Secret Service records, and Jacqueline Kennedy’s personal letters, bestselling biographer Barbara Leaming answers the question: what was it like to be Mrs. John F. Kennedy during the dramatic thousand days of the Kennedy presidency? Brilliantly researched, Leaming’s poignant and powerful chronicle illuminates the tumultuous day-to-day life of a woman who entered the White House at age thirty-one, seven years into a complex and troubled marriage, and left at thirty-four after her husband's assassination. Revealing the full story of the interplay of sex and politics in Washington, Mrs. Kennedy will indelibly challenge our vision of this fascinating woman, and bring a new perspective to her crucial role in the Kennedy presidency.

MRS KENNEDY: THE MISSING HISTORY OF THE KENNEDY YEARS: THE MISSING HISTORY OF THE KENNEDY YEARS

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Tanned and worn dust jacket has short tears to the edges, page edges tanned, bookseller's marks. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Viking/Penguin

If this was happiness: A biography of Rita Hayworth

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

This is a biography of Kate Hepburn. What drove her? Why was she so loved? What led this fiercly independent woman to curl up devotedly outside Spencer Tracy's locked door while he drank himself unconscious? Hepburn's own books gave away nothing, but this biography sets out to bring alive three generations of fearless women shadowed by suicide and madness.

Katharine Hepburn

Arts & Photography

Music

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