From #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, whose farsighted vision and inspired action preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alike…..
This is my current read as I sit in my car waiting in a parent pick up and or drop off line. The struggle is real people! I just use my time in these situations to read.
So far I have learned so much I’m looking up more books to read as I read about these men and their lives. I’m about half way through! I am trying to finish before it comes out next Tuesday!
READ READ READ!!
Current Read.
Peace.
In the end, Churchill and Orwell proved their age’s necessary men. The glorious climax of Churchill and Orwell is the work they both did in the decade of the 1940’s to triumph over freedom’s enemies. And though Churchill played the larger role in the defeat of Hitler and the Axis, Orwell’s reckoning with the menace of authoritarian rule in Animal Farm and 1984 would define the stakes of the Cold War for its 50-year course, and continues to give inspiration to fighters for freedom to this day. Taken together, in Thomas E. Ricks’s masterful hands, their lives are a beautiful testament to the power of moral conviction, and to the courage it can take to stay true to it, through thick and thin.
I have finished this book! I have learned so very much from this book!
I knew almost nothing of Churchill’s growing up years or where he came from, his family or school life. I had read massive amounts about him from 1940 on. Given this new information of what his life what like until that time, I have to say I am in awe. Inspiring is not really the correct word. Churchill was a tenacious person. He reportedly had a wonderful marriage, lost a child to sepsis, had trouble in school, He was extremely complex, far from perfect, outspoken had many flaws, but accomplished amazing feats. This makes his life so endearing to me an outspoken hot mess rebellious feminist hippie.
Orwell. The only thing I knew about George Orwell before reading this book is that I had read his two books Animal Farm and 1984 in high school. Although I have just recently reread 1984… I wondered before receiving this book what he would have thought of the sudden resurgence of his books again due to the current administration here in the USA. Really of the popularity over all and for such a long time. Orwell did not really live long enough to see any of it. His outspokenness about social injustices, his like of democratic socialism and huge dislike of totalitarian government is still relevant today as much as when he was alive writing about it and discussing it.
Both of these men unwavering in their beliefs. Hugely inspiring read. Never give up.
Peace.
