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    <body><![CDATA[A balanced approach to Churchill's character.  The author describes Churchill's strengths and weaknesses in an objective way.  He deals with his career through the good times and bad times.  He gives good coverage of his poor decisions as well as his important decisions which helped him become one o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67573282">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Well-reviewed but only periodically interesting biography of the British statesman and author. Jenkins is perhaps too inside and too much a chronicler of Churchill’s calendar to do for Churchill what so many of Lincoln’s biographers have done for their subject. Despite his final conclusion that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13471401">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have little comparison material, except for a partial read of the partial Churchill biography by William Manchester, of which I remember little, however this biography is manageable (if anything about Churchill is), at 900 pages. Given Roy Jenkins' own political experience, giving him first hand e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11672212">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent portrait of Churchill complete with all of his glories and flaws.  Today, it is somewhat difficult to think of Mr. Churchill as anything but a hero of the Twentieth Century who warned the world that the rising tides of nazism and facism where evil, who during the lowest hours of World W...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34942997">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an outstanding book and I learned a lot about Churchill and about British politics. But the book is very challenging. Written by a member of Parliment, it includes a lot of inside stories and background that I think you have to be at least British if not a member of the Government during th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79715056">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved Churchill's <em>History of the Second World War</em>, so when this book came out, I bought it. It had had good reviews from people who pointed out how well-qualified Jenkins was to write about his illustrious predecessor, having himself had top posts in the British Government.<br/><br/>Well... I wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39503186">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Winston Churchill was querulous, childish, self-indulgent, and difficult, writes English historian Roy Jenkins. But he was also brilliant, tenacious, and capable--in short, &quot;the greatest human being ever to occupy 10 Downing Street.&quot; Jenkins's book stands as the best single-volume biography of Churchill in recent years.<p>  Marked by the author's wide experience writing on British leaders such as Balfour and Gladstone and his tenure as a member of Parliament, his book adds much to the vast library of works on Churchill. While acknowledging his subject's prickly nature, Jenkins credits Churchill for, among other things, recognizing far earlier than his peers the dangers of Hitler's regime. He praises Churchill for his leadership during the war years, especially at the outset, when England stood alone and in imminent danger of defeat. He also examines Churchill's struggle to forge political consensus to meet that desperate crisis, and he sheds new light on Churchill's postwar decline. <em>--Gregory McNamee</em> </p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Heavy on British who's who's and how much time Churchill spent with various people that I don't know anything about. Ultimately, this is a work written for people who already know a lot about Churchill and want some fresh info. It was difficult for me to wade through. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating insight into the life &amp; times of Churchill... the only slight reservation is that there's a lot of Parliamentry detail in there which can leave you a bit dazed and confused.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Former English politician Roy Jenkins provides an updated biography of the most important statesman of the 20the century. Well worth the read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A very dense, detailed biography of Churchill which is probably the best one volume life of the man that exists. Jenkins' work has been nominated for a number of awards, and deservedly so: this is a very impressive piece of history, made all the more so when you consider that he was in his 80s at th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27186054">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a shame we sent the statue of him back to England......................]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Churchill was a prolific author and left so many facets to his life that he deserves to be looked at from many perspectives. Jenkins has a unique view among Churchill biographers because he overlapped with him in parliament, and eventually became a minister of the crown himself. Although from the op...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35723616">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book packs in a Load of info on the life and work of Mr. Churchill.  Churchill was a very interesting and unique person.  I knew very little about Churchill and I was surprised to learn that he was such a prodigious writer (he was awarded a Nobel Prize for literature).  He was a man of indefati...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32545709">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[You learn about this book through word of mouth. You hear that it is a readable, interesting account of one of Britain's greatest Prime Ministers. You buy the book, and then read of one of the last Victorians. Before you know it, you are recommending it to others on Goodreads....]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Definitive biogtaphy of Winston Churchill by Roy Jenkins MP who was acquainted with Chruchill in post WW11 parliament.<br/><br/>Much discussion of Churchill's writings which supported him during his lifetime.  Portrsys a very complicated driven man.  Compelling read.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting review of Churchill's life by Roy Jenkins.  My only problem with this book is that the writer's pro-europe views often where forced to the forefront and I felt at times this book was merely a way for him to push these views.]]></body>
    
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