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  1. Great Contemporaries is a collection of 25 short biographical essays about famous people, written by Winston Churchill. The original collection was published in 1937 and included 21 essays mainly written between 1928 and 1931.

  2. Jul 5, 2016 · Insightful biographical sketches of major historical figures of the twentieth century, from the incomparable British statesman. Winston S. Churchill was awarded the Nobel...

  3. Oct 17, 2008 · 2024 International Churchill Conference. Join us for the 41st International Churchill Conference. London | October 2024. More. In Bargaining for Supremacy (Univ. of Calif Press 1977), James R. Leutze accused WSC of being “oddly unaware of other people’s reactions . . . not much interested in others.”

  4. Jun 24, 2013 · Great contemporaries. by. Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965. Publication date. 1973. Topics. Biography. Publisher. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. Collection. internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled. Contributor. Internet Archive. Language. English. Item Size. 624.3M.

  5. Apr 7, 2017 · This is a collection of 25 short biographical essays about famous people, written and published by Winston Churchill before his first tenure as Britains Prime...

  6. Aug 26, 2022 · Great Contemporaries by Winston S. Churchill. Publication date 1959 Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 1140625196. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-08-26 21:04:25 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books ...

  7. Apr 5, 2013 · Thirty years ago in these pages (FH 36:11) the late H. Ashley Redburn reviewed Great Contemporaries under the subtitle, “Churchill Did Care Much about Others,” rejecting the common portrait of WSC as a self-centered egoist concerned only about himself.

  8. Churchill's keen observations take on new importance in our own age of roiling political change. Ultimately, Great Contemporaries provides fascinating insight into the statesman's...

  9. Feb 19, 2013 · Great Contemporaries, published in 1937, offered brief lives of twenty-one “great men of our age”; an expanded edition with four additional essays followed in 1938.

  10. 3.93. 228 ratings27 reviews. The original edition of this collection of articles was published in 1937 (Thornton Butterworth); subsequent editions appeared in 1936 (with four new articles, including a portrait of FDR) and in 1943 (in which articles on Trotsky and Roosevelt were omitted for political reasons).