One of my 20th Century Heroes.
I like that he drank.
I like that he was abrasive.
I like that he was politically incorrect.
He was a man of his time. Liberals can go pound sand.
Genius often fails big, when it fails.
Think of the Lorne Michaels' SNL sketches that didn't work, back in the early years. They didn't happen often, but when they did they were embarrassing.
Einstein said that his flirtation with the cosmological constant was the "biggest blunder" in his career.
All men are flawed. To reject a great leader merely because of flaws is to invite a Manchurian Candidate who is so scripted and polished that no one knows anything about the potential leader’s background. That sort of mistake could spell the end of a free country.
All great leaders are flawed men. At least the mortal ones are.
I should also have mentioned Steve Jobs and the NeXT computer.
I wonder how much of it has to do with his successfully prosecuting a war. In the US, we hold up FDR, Lincoln, and Wilson, all wartime presidents. On the other hand, the Brits did dump Churchill from office before lionizing him later.
Winnie had a lisp... but still gave the greatest speeches of the entire century from any country.
Like Demosthenes, a stuttering youngster swindled out of his inheritance, to become one of the greatest orators of all time (and damn good lawyer)
I stopped reading when the article said that going back on the gold standard created the Great Depression.
One of my all-time favorite movies....Albert Finney WAS Churchill....
The Gathering Storm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXHo6uPq-uY
I recently found and purchased an early edition of his small book on painting which he claimed as a frequent pastime. He had a great feel for perspective and foregrounds as in landscapes....but his essay on the personal experience of painting...particularly en plein air is both inspiring and motivational if one paints as either an amateur or professional.
I'm an avid reader, but have never read a Churchill biography - which one would you suggest?
(I know there must be a dozen or more).
Barack Hussein Barry Soetoro Obama:
How a worthless socialist loafer became ensconced in the now denigrated White Hut to sink America.
The British Establishment was only reluctantly dragged into war with Hitler in 1939, and would certainly have made a peace deal with him after the fall of France, except for Churchill. One man in the right place at the right time may have saved the civilized world.