Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying and the Future

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A collection of 23 original newspaper articles that present the variety and depth of Churchills reflections on the largest questions facing humanity. First published in 1932, this wide-ranging volume of essays touches on cartoons, hobbies, spies, flying, elections, economics and modern science, providing fresh ways of exploring Churchill and his perspectives. Published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Churchills birth, expertly annotated with a new foreword by Churchill scholar, James W. Muller, this volume is a bridge to Churchills autobiographical works, falling between My Early Life and The Second World War.

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Sir Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on two occasions, from 1940-1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Celebrated as one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century, he was also a gifted orator, statesman and historian. The author of more than 40 books, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 and in 1963 was made an honorary citizen of the United States. James W. Muller is Professor of Political Science at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, where he has taught since 1983, and is Chairman of the Board of Academic Advisers of the International Churchill Society. Educated at Harvard University and the Ecole Normale Suprieure, Paris, he is a by-fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and served as a White House Fellow in 198384 and was an Academic Visitor at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 198889. He has taught courses in statesmanship, political philosophy, and American political thought.