Shelden, Michael. Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill. S. & S.2013.416p. illus. notes.bibliog. index. ISBN 9781451609912. $30

摘要

Shelden (English, Indiana State Univ.; Mark Twain: The Man in White) switches from his usual literary biographies to focus here on a thin but significant slice of Winston Churchill's life, the period from 1901 to 1915, in which Churchill began his rapid ascent from unknown Conservative member of Parliament to heady days as a young First Lord of the Admiralty at the beginning of World War I. In sparkling prose, Shelden explores the tendentious world of high-level Edwardian politics as Churchill worked with and competed against the likes of Herbert H.