“With dozens of biographies already written about Churchill, Rubin takes an absolutely unique approach: she writes forty short chapters examining different angles of his life and how those angles have been portrayed in different biographies. Not surprisingly, she reveals contradictory accounts and highlights the impact of a historian's bias. I knew very little about Churchill going in so I found this thin volume an excellent introduction. Btw, this is the Gretchen who writes The Happiness Project.”
bencasnocha wrote this review Friday, August 22, 2008.
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