06784cam a2200877 4500 294568436 TxAuBib 20170602120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780698164543 0698164547 B01LYJTE7S Amazon 5bb40070-73b5-4635-9adb-138f3d6f0426 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2968757 OverDrive (Product ID) 2968757 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Ricks, Thomas E. Churchill and Orwell [Libby] : The Fight for Freedom. Penguin Publishing Group, 2017. London. World War II. Biography. War Stories. Animal Farm. Boer War. FDR. Chamberlain. Communism. Father's Day. yalta. britain. European History. D-Day. appeasement. Adolf Hitler. Spanish Civil War. WW II . Roosevelt. Churchill. WWII. British History. Orwell. fascism. History. Winston Churchill. Totalitarianism. 1984. World War 2. dystopia. Leadership. hitler. Stalin. freedom. prime minister. George Orwell. father's day gift. orwellian. d day. the spanish civil war. British parliament. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 21MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 21MB. Biography & Autobiography. History. Politics. Nonfiction. HTML:March 13, 2017 Winston Churchill, the great WWII British prime minister, and George Orwell, celebrated author of 1984 and Animal Farm, never met. There’s no evidence that Churchill ever read a word by Orwell, and the latter never held public office. But they admired each other from afar and worked for the same purpose: to save the world from totalitarianism. Ricks (The Gamble), two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, brings the two men together in a book whose model is assumed to be Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, side-by-side sketches of people whose existence never overlapped. In vivid prose, Ricks entwines the biographies of two figures who fought in strikingly different ways to achieve similar goals. What is new in this portrayal is their juxtaposition between a single book’s covers, though it’s unclear on what grounds Ricks chooses to do so. Other politicians roused their people; other writers warned of the Nazi and Soviet menaces. However, even if Ricks isn’t convincing in his pairing of the two men, he superbly illustrates that Churchill and Orwell made enduring cases for the necessity of moral and political fortitude in the face of authoritarianism. This is a bracing work for our times.. Publisher's Weekly. HTML: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 Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's—Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time, Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to his class and party suspect. Orwell was a mildly successful novelist, to put it generously. No one would have predicted that by the end of the 20th century they would be considered two of the most important people in British history for having the vision and courage to campaign tirelessly, in words and in deeds, against the totalitarian threat from both the left and the right. In a crucial moment, they responded first by seeking the facts of the matter, seeing through the lies and obfuscations, and then they acted on their beliefs. Together, to an extent not sufficiently appreciated, they kept the West's compass set toward freedom as its due north. It's not easy to recall now how lonely a position both men once occupied. By the late 1930's, democracy was discredited in many circles, and authoritarian rulers were everywhere in the ascent. There were some who decried the scourge of communism, but saw in Hitler and Mussolini "men we could do business with," if not in fact saviors. And there were others who saw the Nazi and fascist threat as malign, but tended to view communism as the path to salvation. Churchill and Orwell, on the other hand, had the foresight to see clearly that the issue was human freedom—that whatever its coloration, a government that denied its people basic freedoms was a totalitarian menace and had to be resisted. 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'sto 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. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2017-06-02 23:00:03. http://westtexas.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=5bb40070-73b5-4635-9adb-138f3d6f0426 https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5bb40070-73b5-4635-9adb-138f3d6f0426&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5bb40070-73b5-4635-9adb-138f3d6f0426&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=5bb40070-73b5-4635-9adb-138f3d6f0426&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXOLT