The book I am about to write might aptly be called The Autobiography of a Romanticist. In that sense, if in no other, I have been a typical American, regarding my country as the happy hunting-ground of enlightened self-interest, as a function of my desires. Whether or not I have completely got rid of this romantic virus I must leave to those the aim of whose existence is to eradicate it from our literature and our life. A somewhat Augean task!
I have been impelled therefore to make an attempt at set First I am to write a love-story of long ago, of a time some little while after General Jackson had got into the White House and had shown the world what a real democracy was. The Era of the first six Presidents had closed, and a new Era had begun. I am speaking of political Eras. Certain gentlemen, with a pious belief in democracy, but with a firmer determination to get on top, arose,—and got in top. So many of these gentlemen arose in the different states, and they were so clever, and they found so many chinks in the Constitution to crawl through and steal the people's chestnuts, that the Era may be called the Boss-Era.
After the Boss came along certain Things without souls, but of many Failure to recognize that the American, is at heart an idealist is to lack understanding of our national character. Two of our greatest interpreters proclaimed it, Emerson and William James.
Firmin Roz observed that a people is rarely justly estimated by its contemporaries. The French, he says, have been celebrated chiefly for the skill of their chefs and their vaudeville actors, while in the disturbed 'speculum mundi' Americans have appeared as a collection of money grabbers whose philosophy is the dollar. It remained for the war to reveal the true nature of both peoples. The book has been awarded with , and many others.
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He was again elected MP in and served as minister of munitions , secretary of war , head of the Colonial Office and chancellor of the Exchequer As time progressed, Churchill became increasingly more conservative in his politics and re-joined the Conservative party.
During the years from until the outbreak of war in , he was a highly outspoken MP who continually warned of the threat of a growing power in Germany under the Nazis. In , he again joined the Admiralty, but when Germany invaded Holland and Belgium, he became prime minister.
As one of the leaders of the Allies, he helped to lead them to ultimate victory over the Axis powers. In a surprise turnaround, Chrurchill and the Conservatives were voted out of power in when Labour swept the election.
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The quintessential account of the Second World War as seen by Winston Churchill, its greatest leader. Memoirs of the Second World War is a vital and illuminating work that retains the drama, eyewitness details, and magisterial prose of his classic six-volume history and offers an invaluable view of pivotal events of the twentieth century.
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