Winston Churchill1

Thesis Statement Churchill, the master British statesman, stood alone against fascism and renewed the worlds, faith in the superiority of democracy. Sir Winston Churchill The political history of the 20th century can be written as the biographies of six men: Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, and Mao Zedong. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. The first four were totalitarians that made or used revolutions to create monstrous dictatorships. Roosevelt and Churchill differed from them in being democrats. And …

…the adventurer, aristocrat, soldier, and statesman covers the first 58 years of Churchill’s life. Manchester, William Raymond. The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Vol. II, Alone 1932-1940: Dell Publishing Company Incorporated, Sept. 1989. 768pp. Mansfield, Stephen. Never Give in: The Extraordinary Character of Winston Churchill; Cumberland House. Sept. 1996. 225pp. A new study of Churchill’s leadership skills produces an inspirational account of the man whose shadow fell large across the world stage half a century ago.