This is not a book about Winston Churchill. It is not principally
about his politics, nor his rhetorical imagination, nor even about
the man himself. Instead, it addresses the varied afterlives of the
man and the persistent, deeply located compulsion to bring him back
from the dead, capturing and explaining the significance of the
various Churchill myths to Britain's history and current politics.
The authors look at Churchill's portrayal in social memory. They
demonstrate the ways in which politicians have often used the idea
of Churchill as a means of self-validation - using him to show
themselves as tough and honest players. They show the man
dramatized in film and television - an onscreen persona that is
often the product of a gratuitous mixing of fact and fantasy, one
deliberately shaped to meet the preferences of the presumed
audience. They discuss his legacy in light of the Brexit debate -
showing how public figures on both sides of the Leave/Remain debate
were able to use elements of Churchill's words and character to
argue for their own point-of-view.
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