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Joseph Parrott

Churchill: A Biography by Roy Jenkins (2002)

September 4, 2011

Book cover of Churchill: A Biography by Roy Jenkins

After a long career among both politicians and literary lights, Roy Jenkins perhaps found his ideal subject in his last great biography, Churchill. Fans of the reputation-blackening revisionism common to the genre will find little to love in this laudatory account.

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