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The Churchills: In Love and War

Categorie	Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer	#272967
Titel	The Churchills: In Love and War
Auteur	Lovell, Mary S.
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York, W.W. Norton & Company
Jaar van uitgave	2011
ISBN10	0393062309
ISBN13	9780393062304
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	The first Dene of Marlborough (1650-1722) was a soldier of such genius that a lavish palace, Blenheim, was built to honor his triumphs. Succeeding generations of Churchills sometimes achieved distinction but also included profligates and womanizers, and were saddled with the ruinous upkeep of Blenheim. The family fortunes were revived in the nineteenth century by the huge dowries of New York society beauties Jennie Jerome (Winston's mother) and Consuelo Vanderbilt (wife to Winston's cousin). Mary S. Lovell brilliantly recounts the triumphant political and military campaigns, the construction of great houses, the domestic tragedies, and the happy marriage of Winston to Clementine Hosier set against the disastrous unions of most of his family, which ended in venereal disease, papal annulme... (Lees verder)nt, clinical depression, and adultery. The Churchills were an extraordinary family: ambitious, impecunious, impulsive, brave, and arrogant. Winston-recently voted "The Greatest Briton"-dominates them all. His failures and triumphs are revealed in the context of a poignant and sometimes tragic private life.
Pagina's	624
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 8,00

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