Author : Michael McMenamin
Release : 2009
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 872/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Becoming Winston Churchill by : Michael McMenamin
Download or read book Becoming Winston Churchill written by Michael McMenamin. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young man Winston Churchill was greatly influenced by Bourke Cockran, a charismatic New York City congressman who was Churchill's widowed mother's lover and friend. Cockran was a brilliant trial lawyer and adviser to American presidents. He took young Winston under his wing and gave him unusual insights into the politics of the time. It was a particularly important relationship that shaped Churchill's thinking and political outlook; it also provided a window into the United States that he would take with him all his life. The story is also biographical, told in part as fiction and reproducing for the first time the private correspondence between the two men.