Man and Myth: Richard Aldous Reviews Churchill's Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill by Geoffrey Wheatcroft

“Geoffrey Wheatcroft, a British commentator and author with a reputation as an admirably pugnacious contrarian, recalls seeing Churchill in the House of Commons as a schoolboy in 1963,” writes Aldous, Eugene Meyer Professor of British History and Literature, in the Wall Street Journal. “‘For all that he was aged and infirm,’ [Wheatcroft] writes, ‘I was glad to have seen him for myself, and to have seen him where I did.’ In Churchill’s Shadow, Mr. Wheatcroft attempts ‘to make a reckoning’ with the man he saw on that day—not just with his life and legacy but also with ‘the long shadow he still casts.’”

Post Date: 10-26-2021