The Private Lives of Winston Churchill

He was a lion of a man who helped shape the course of this century with his relentless ambition and fierce political instincts. Few have matched Winston Churchill's cunning or force of will. Few have seen the equal of his audacity on the battlefield or the determination with which he strove toward his own ideal of greatness. At the height of his power he seemed to embody the ideals of the empire he helped sustain: valor pride and above all tradition. His sense of personal destiny was rooted deeply in the legacy of his birth-right the heritage of his family and the awesome responsibility of being born Churchill. In The Private Lives of Winston Churchill first published in 1991 John Pearson takes us behind the myth of Churchill and deep into the psychology of a dynasty that some have called the most complicated Anglo-American family of this century. In doing so he reveals in rich portraits some of the family's greatest most charismatic and most deeply troubled members and shows us the real private Winston Churchill.