The Churchills. In Love And War

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2011
Edition: Unknown

Description: 624 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The epic story of one of Englands greatest families, focusing on the towering figure of Winston Churchill. The first Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722) was a soldier of such genius that a lavish palace, Blenheim, was built to honor his triumphs. Succeeding generations of Churchills sometimes achieved distinction but also included profligates and womanizers, and were saddled with the ruinous upkeep of Blenheim. The family fortunes were revived in the nineteenth century by the huge dowries of New York society beauties Jennie Jerome (Winstons mother) and Consuelo Vanderbilt (wife to Winstons cousin).Mary S. Lovell brilliantly recounts the triumphant political and military campaigns, the construction of great houses, the domestic tragedies, and the happy marriage of Winston to Clementine Hosier set against the disastrous unions of most of his family, which ended in venereal disease, papal annulment, clinical depression, and adultery.The Churchills were an extraordinary family: ambitious, impecunious, impulsive, brave, and arrogant. Winston?recently voted "The Greatest Briton"?dominates them all. His failures and triumphs are revealed in the context of a poignant and sometimes tragic private life. 32 pages of illustrations in black-and-white

ISBN: 9780393062304