Churchill And Orwell
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A New York Times Book ReviewNotable Book of 2017 A dual biography
of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who preserved democracy
from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right
alike. Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death
in the mid-1930's--Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the
Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City.
If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the
time, Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to his
class and party suspect. Orwell was a mildly successful novelist,
to put it generously. No one would have predicted that by the end
of the 20th century they would be considered two of the most
important people in British history for having the vision and
courage to campaign tirelessly, in words and in deeds, against the
totalitarian threat from both the left and the right. In a crucial
moment, they responded first by seeking the facts of the matter,
seeing through the lies and obfuscations, and then they acted on
their beliefs. Together, to an extent not sufficiently appreciated,
they kept the West's compass set toward freedom as its due north.
It's not easy to recall now how lonely a position both men once
occupied. By the late 1930's, democracy was discredited in many
circles, and authoritarian rulers were everywhere in the ascent.
There were some who decried the scourge of communism, but saw in
Hitler and Mussolini ",men we could do business with,", if not in
fact saviors. And there were others who saw the Nazi and fascist
threat as malign, but tended to view communism as the path to
salvation. Churchill and Orwell, on the other hand, had the
foresight to see clearly that the issue was human freedom--that
whatever its coloration, a government that denied its people basic
freedoms was a totalitarian menace and had to be resisted. In the
end, Churchill and Orwell proved their age's necessary men. The
glorious climax of Churchill and Orwellis the work they both did in
the decade of the 1940's to triumph over freedom's enemies. And
though Churchill played the larger role in the defeat of Hitler and
the Axis, Orwell's reckoning with the menace of authoritarian rule
in Animal Farmand 1984would define the stakes of the Cold War for
its 50-year course, and continues to give inspiration to fighters
for freedom to this day. Taken together, in Thomas E. Ricks's
masterful hands, their lives are a beautiful testament to the power
of moral conviction, and to the courage it can take to stay true to
it, through thick and thin. Churchill and Orwell is a perfect gift
for the holidays!
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Penguin Books ,
Thomas E. Ricks
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Penguin Books,
Thomas E. Ricks
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