Great Contemporaries is a collection of essays written by Winston S. Churchill, a renowned British statesman and Prime Minister, about some of the most influential figures of his time. The book includes biographical sketches of 25 individuals who Churchill considered to be the...
Great Contemporaries profiles towering figures ranging from Franklin Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Lawrence of Arabia and Leon Trotsky to Charlie Chaplin, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling and George Bernard Shaw. Written in the decade before Churchill became prime minister,...