{"product_id":"2940169180961","title":"Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eWarrior and writer, genius and crank, rider in the British cavalry's last great charge and inventor of the tankamp;mdash;Winston Churchill led Britain to fight alone against Nazi Germany in the fateful year of 1940 and set the standard for leading a democracy at war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike no other portrait of its famous subject, \u003ci\u003eForty Ways to Look at Winston   Churchill\u003c\/i\u003e is a dazzling display of facts more improbable than fiction, and an investigation of the contradictions and complexities that haunt biography. Gretchen Craft Rubin gives readers, in a single volume, the kind of rounded view usually gained only by   reading dozens of conventional biographies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith penetrating insight and vivid anecdotes,   Rubin makes Churchill accessible and meaningful to twenty-first-century readers with forty contrasting views of the man: he was an alcoholic, he was not; he was an anachronism, he was a visionary; he was a racist, he was a humanitarian; he was the most quotable man in the history of the English language, he was a bore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn crisp, energetic language,  Rubin creates a new form for presenting a great figure of historyamp;mdash;and brings to full realization the depiction of a man too fabulous for any novelist to construct, too   complicated for even the longest narrative to describe, and too valuable ever to be forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncludes a bonus PDF with additional resources.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47097848332528,"sku":"2940169180961","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169180961_p0.jpg?v=1763674617","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169180961","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}