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Summary: Reader from Boston, MA
Review: This book is an excellent compendium of the wit of Winston Churchill. Often acerbic, frequently self-deprecating, but always humorous and witty while exactly on point, Churchill's humor and wit collected in this book would be of great value even to professional comedy writers. The book also tells much about the man, Churchill, himself, and his inner strength, sense of proportion, his mastery of the English language and his uncanny ability to use the English language masterfully and to its maximum affect -- the qualities that made Churchill such an effective and potent world leader during the bleakest days of World War II.
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Summary: Delightful
Review: This book makes it a lot of fun to learn about one of the greatest leaders the world has ever known. Delightful quotations and anecdotes! The only downside is that it doesn't give sources for many of the quotations, so it's a bit hard to put them in context. I also highly recommend a book of wisdom by Taro Gold titled "Open Your Mind, Open Your Life." Excellent.
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Summary: Great little introduction to Churchill
Review: This is a great little book that will have you laughing out loud at times. It's the perfect way to whet someone's historical appetite to learn more about one of the most important men of the 20th Century. I hadn't given that much thought to reading about Churchill before I flipped through "The Wit and Wisdom". After reading through the collected Churchill quotes, I wanted to learn more about this witty and interesting man.
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Summary: Great little introduction to Churchill
Review: This is a great little book that will have you laughing out loud at times. It's the perfect way to whet someone's historical appetite to learn more about one of the most important men of the 20th Century. I hadn't given that much thought to reading about Churchill before I flipped through "The Wit and Wisdom". After reading through the collected Churchill quotes, I wanted to learn more about this witty and interesting man.
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Summary: Fun, great for the coffee table
Review: This is an amusing (but by no means exhaustive) compilation of Winston Churchill-isms. The quotes listed herein range for the mundane (On sandwiches: "The bread must be wafer thin. It is nothing more than a vehicle to convey the filling to the stomach") to the world-renowned ("...an iron curtain has descended across the continent"). Of course, he's at his best as a crusty old politician complaining or retorting (on Atlee: "He is a modest man with much to be modest about"), of which there are many examples in this little book. As a coffee table book, this is a great addition - you can pick it up and start at any page and read a few quotes for a chuckle or an interesting insight.Hume does not pretend to have created the definitive quote book on Churchill with this volume, but it works well as a sampling. The only complaint is the lack of context from which the quotes are taken sometimes diminishes the impact. This is a minor complaint, however, and this book will supply me with quotes for the .sig file in my E-mails for years to come.
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Summary: Fun, great for the coffee table
Review: This is an amusing (but by no means exhaustive) compilation of Winston Churchill-isms. The quotes listed herein range for the mundane (On sandwiches: "The bread must be wafer thin. It is nothing more than a vehicle to convey the filling to the stomach") to the world-renowned ("...an iron curtain has descended across the continent"). Of course, he's at his best as a crusty old politician complaining or retorting (on Atlee: "He is a modest man with much to be modest about"), of which there are many examples in this little book. As a coffee table book, this is a great addition - you can pick it up and start at any page and read a few quotes for a chuckle or an interesting insight. Hume does not pretend to have created the definitive quote book on Churchill with this volume, but it works well as a sampling. The only complaint is the lack of context from which the quotes are taken sometimes diminishes the impact. This is a minor complaint, however, and this book will supply me with quotes for the .sig file in my E-mails for years to come.
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Summary: Delightful
Review: This work is full of so many laughs. His humor was extremely rare, yet so powerful and touching. A must have.
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Summary: Laughs From Start To Finish!!!
Review: This work is full of so many laughs. His humor was extremely rare, yet so powerful and touching. A must have.
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Summary: Brilliance and Hilarity in One Package
Review: While I expected to be swept away by Churchill's superb grasp of the English language and his intelligence on a multitude of topics, I was suprised at how much I laughed out loud at this book. Churchill's wit was truly timely and amazing, and it is well-packaged here. One notable quote was missing, however. Churchill was once reported to have said, after meeting Eleanor Roosevelt: " I have faced war, and I have faced Eleanor. I prefer war."
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Summary: A Delightful Book About A Great Man........
Review: Winston Churchill is one of the greatest men of our or any other time. His intelligence, wit, humor and clarity of thought is well captured in this great little book. It's broken down into several sections and it's a quick read. It's a book that I keep going back to!
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