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The Wit & Wisdom of Winston Churchill by: James C. Humes, Richard M. Nixon List Price: $12.95 CD-Charts Price: $10.36 You Save: $2.59 (20%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 320 EAN: 9780060925772 ISBN: 0060925779 Label: Harper Perennial Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: 1995-01 Publisher: Harper Perennial Studio: Harper Perennial Sales Rank: 22338 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: An enormously entertaining compendium of witticisms, anecdotes, and trivia about Winston Churchill by a former White House speechwriter. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Must Read!Have if you're like me and have a lot of friends that don't read (but love Blue Collar Comedy Tour...) then you can start using quotes right out of this book and they will think you just came down from the mountain of knowledge and wisdom. Hey you can even use this for those fun quotes at the bottom of your email! Look how global you can become, yes you! Great book, very well organized and really a lot of fun to read. Winston Churchill was truly a clever man and would be on my top 10 list of Dudes I would like to have a Newcastle with. Robb Boyd from Cisco's TechWiseTV is number one on the beer list... Rating:  - EntertainmentA delightful book. I thought the author a little too sycophantic for my taste (I am an Australian after all) but the contents are very entertaining. You can dip into it at any place and read for two minutes or two hours and have a good chuckle. Rating:  - review of wit and wisdom of Winston ChurchillThe book is entertaining. It's the kind of book you don't just read through, but pick it up read a few sections at a time. Rating: - Utterly DelightfulA compact book with more than 1,000 quotations and anecdotes you can enjoy at any time. Here are just a few: Violet Asquith, the irrepressible daughter of Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, found a kindred spirit in Churchill, who served in her father's Cabinet. Once, in a flight of philosophical gloom, she turned to her dinner partner and said, "Winston, in terms of infinity, we are cosmic dust - we are just worms." "Perhaps, Violet", Churchill replied, "but I am a glowworm." * * * If "Franglais" has been only recently coined to describe the bastardizing of the French language by English words, Churchill may have been the sire of this hybrid argot. Sometimes his additions ... Read More: Rating: - Power of Words in the Majestic Battle of IdeasIn this book, James C. Humes gives his audience an excellent opportunity to conjure up a mental picture of Winston Churchill and his legacy. As a renaissance man, Churchill was more than a skilled politician and a gifted soldier. Perhaps more importantly, Churchill was a man of inspired words, whose work was ultimately crown by the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953. Churchill often was far from politically correct and did not hesitate to say, write and do what he thought was right. Churchill's bluntness did not make him dear to everybody. Humes first brings to light many of the great thoughts of Churchill in "Observations and Opinions." Humes classifies key words alphabetically without giving context so that readers can easily find ... Read More: |
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