No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money
Price
$10.95
Format
Paperback
Pages
528
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Publication Date
June 1, 2016
ISBN-13
978-1784081829
Dimensions
7.83 x 1.46 x 5.24 inches
Weight
14.1 ounces
Description
"Brilliantly illuminates one of the few unexplored aspects of Winston Churchill's life - his private finances. Based on a wealth of fresh documentary evidence, it also reveals much about his larger-than-life character. In these fascinating pages Churchill emerges as extravagant in every way, especially in his addiction to risk." Piers Brendon, author, "The Decline and Fall of the British Empire," and former Keeper of the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge" David Lough is a financial advisor.
Features & Highlights
- The popular image of Churchill grandson of a duke, drinking champagne and smoking a cigar conjures up a man of wealth and substance. The reality is that Britain s most celebrated 20th-century statesman lived for most of his life on a financial cliff-edge. Only fragments of information about his finances, or their impact on his public life, have previously emerged. With the help of unprecedented access to Churchill s private records, David Lough creates the first fully researched narrative of Churchill s private finances and business affairs. As he reveals the scale of Churchill s financial risk-taking, combined with an ability to talk or write himself out of the tightest of corners, the links between the private man and public figure become clear."
