{"product_id":"9781935191995","title":"Great Contemporaries: Churchill Reflects on FDR, Hitler, Kipling, Chaplin, Balfour, and Other Giants of His Age","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChurchill Sizes Up the Giants of His Age, Offers Wisdom for Our Own\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinston Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on the strength of “his mastery of historical and biographical description.” Nowhere is that mastery more evident than in \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreat Contemporaries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e(1937), which features Churchill’s brief lives of those he called “Great Men of our age.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eISI Books is proud to publish a brand-new, illustrated edition of this neglected classic. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreat Contemporaries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e profiles towering figures ranging from Franklin Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Lawrence of Arabia, and Leon Trotsky to Charlie Chaplin, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, and George Bernard Shaw. This edition—the first in twenty years—includes five essays that have never appeared in any previous version, some thirty black-and-white photographs, and an enlightening introduction and annotations by noted Churchill scholar James W. Muller.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWritten in the decade before Churchill became prime minister, the essays in \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreat Contemporaries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e focus on the challenges of statecraft at a time when the democratic revolution was toppling older regimes based on tradition and aristocratic privilege. Churchill’s keen observations take on new importance in our own age of roiling political change.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eUltimately, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreat Contemporaries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e provides fascinating insight into the statesman’s perspective. Churchill’s objective is clear: he tries to learn from these giants what makes a man great. He approaches his subjects with a measuring eye, finding their limitations at least as revealing as their merits.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis handsome new edition of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreat Contemporaries\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e brings back Churchill’s unmatched insights and unforgettable prose for a new generation of readers and leaders.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ISI Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060647051504,"sku":"9781935191995","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781935191995_p0.jpg?v=1763656284","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781935191995","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}