'It brings its subject vividly, unforgettably back to life.' - The Washington Post
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill led one of the most astonishing lives that public service has ever witnessed.
Famed for his courageous leadership against Hitler in WW2, his witticisms and his larger-than-life persona, comparatively little is known of Churchill's equally extraordinary pre-war life.
Focusing on the early experiences that shaped his ambition, this fascinating biography from Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Robert Lewis Taylor, delves into the private life of Churchill as a student, a journalist and a soldier.
An Informal Study of Greatness is a delightful and revealing study of a man who, as Taylor puts it, was one of ‘multiple genius’ and ‘one of the most exasperating figures of history.’
Praise for Robert Lewis Taylor
‘Tremendously entertaining reading’ - Kirkus Reviews
‘A prolific and witty writer’ – The New York Times
Robert Lewis Taylor (1912-1998) was born in southern Illinois and educated at Southern Illinois University and the University of Illinois. Upon graduation, he lived in Europe and in Polynesia; then, after a brief interlude as editor of a weekly newspaper, became a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 1940 he joined The New Yorker magazine as a writer of profiles and other long pieces. Taylor is author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Travels of Jamie McPheeters and the acclaimed biography, W. C. Fields: His Follies and Fortunes.
