Great Contemporaries

Insightful biographical sketches of major historical figures of the twentieth century, from the incomparable British statesman. Winston S. Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of “his mastery of historical and biographical description.” Nowhere is that mastery more evident than in Great Contemporaries —which features Churchill’s profiles of many of the major figures of his time. These short biographies cover political and cultural personalities ranging from Frankli