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The Churchill Complex - The Rise and Fall of the Special Relationship from Winston and FDR to Trump and Johnson (Hardcover, Main)
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The Churchill Complex - The Rise and Fall of the Special Relationship from Winston and FDR to Trump and Johnson (Hardcover, Main)
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Loot Price R510
Discovery Miles 5 100
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'Rich and rewarding' Wall Street Journal It is impossible to
understand the last 75 years of British and American history
without understanding the Anglo-American relationship, and
specifically the bonds between presidents and prime ministers. FDR
of course had Churchill; JFK famously had Macmillan, his
consigliere during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Reagan found his
ideological soul mate in Thatcher, and George W. Bush found his
fellow believer, in religion and in war, in Tony Blair. In a series
of shrewd and absorbing character studies, Ian Buruma takes the
reader on a journey through the special relationship via the
fateful bonds between president and prime minister. It's never been
a relationship of equals: from Churchill's desperate cajoling and
conniving to keep FDR on side, British prime ministers have put
much more stock in the relationship than their US counterparts did.
For Britain, resigned to the loss of its once-great empire, its
close kinship to the world's greatest superpower would give it
continued relevance, and serve as leverage to keep continental
Europe in its place. As Buruma shows, this was almost always fool's
gold. And now, as the links between the Brexit vote and the 2016 US
election are coming into sharper focus, it is impossible to
understand the populist uprising in either country without
reference to Trump and Boris Johnson, though ironically, they are
also the key, Buruma argues, to understanding the special
relationship's demise.
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