Name: Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life
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Author: Gretchen Rubin
ISBN: 9780812971446

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Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life

Type

Physical Book

Author

Gretchen Rubin

Publisher

Random House

Year

2004

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

Weight

ISBN

0812971442

ISBN13

9780812971446

Synopsis "Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life "

A WALL STREET JOURNAL SUMMER PICKA WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLERWarrior and writer, genius and crank, rider in the British cavalry’s last great charge and inventor of the tank, Winston Churchill led Britain to fight alone against Nazi Germany in the fateful year of 1940 and set the standard for leading a democracy at war. With penetrating insight and vivid anecdotes, Gretchen Rubin makes Churchill accessible and meaningful to twenty-first-century readers by analyzing the many contrasting views of the man: he was an alcoholic, he was not; he was an anachronism, he was a visionary; he was a racist, he was a humanitarian; he was the most quotable man in the history of the English language, he was a bore.Like no other portrait of its famous subject, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill is a dazzling display of facts more improbable than fiction. It brings to full realization the depiction of a man too fabulous for any novelist to construct, too complex for even the longest narrative to describe, and too significant ever to be forgotten.

Gretchen Rubin

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Gretchen Rubin is one of the most influential and suggestive observers of happiness and human nature today. She is known for her ability to convey complex ideas—from science to literature, through stories from her own life—with lightness and clarity.

She is the author of numerous bestsellers, such as The Happiness Project, Better Than Before, and The Four Tendencies, which have sold millions of copies in more than thirty languages. Her most recent book is Living with the Five Senses.

She is also the host of the popular podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin and founder of the award-winning Happier app, which helps people follow their habits to increase happiness.

Gretchen Rubin has been interviewed by Oprah, has dined with Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman, has walked arm in arm with the Dalai Lama, has published articles about her work in a medical journal, has appeared in the New Yorker, and has participated in Jeopardy. After starting her career as a lawyer, she realized she wanted to be a writer while working for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Raised in Kansas City, she lives in New York with her family.

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