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Churchills: In Love & War

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The epic story of one of England's greatest families, focusing on the towering figure of Winston Churchill.The first Duke 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 annulment, clinical depression, and adultery.

Product Overview
ISBN 9780393342253
Categories Biographies and Memoirs, History, MIXnMATCH, New Arrivals, Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction: Humanities
Author(s) Mary S. Lovell
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 624
Format Paperback
Dimensions 21.6cm x 3.8cm x 14cm
Weight 0.53 kg