It’s an antidote to the reigning conceits, self-deceptions, half-truths and clichés of our day.įor instance: Being born into “privilege” is ipso facto a privilege.įor Churchill - who suffered as a child under the remote glare of a contemptuous father and a self-indulgent mother fought valiantly in four wars by the time he was 25 and earned his own living through prodigious literary efforts that ultimately earned him a Nobel Prize - the main privilege was the opportunity to bear up under the immense weight of inner expectation that came with being born to a historic name. So maybe it’s time to acquaint (or reacquaint) ourselves with the original, and there’s no better way of doing it than to read the historian Andrew Roberts’s “Churchill: Walking With Destiny.” A review last month in The Times called it “the best single-volume biography of Churchill yet written,” but it’s more than that.
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