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Shelden (English, Indiana State Univ.; Mark Twain: The Man in White) switches from his usual literary biographies to focus here on a thin but significant slice of Winston Churchill's life, the period from 1901 to 1915, in which Churchill began his rapid ascent from unknown Conservative member of Parliament to heady days as a young First Lord of the Admiralty at the beginning of World War I. In sparkling prose, Shelden explores the tendentious world of high-l...Log In or Sign Up to Read More