Churchill's Trial: Winston Churchill and the Salvation of Free Government
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No statesman shaped the twentieth century more than Winston Churchill. To know the full Churchill is to understand the combination of boldness and caution, of assertiveness and humility, that defines statesmanship at its best. With fresh perspective and insights based on decades of studying and teaching Churchill, Larry P. Arnn explores the greatest challenges faced by Churchill over the course of his extraordinary career, both in war and peace—and always in the context of Churchill’s abiding dedication to constitutionalism.
Churchill’s Trial is organized around the three great challenges to liberty that Churchill faced: Nazism, Soviet communism, and his own nation’s slide toward socialism. Churchill knew that stable free government, long enduring, is rare, and hangs upon the balance of many factors ever at risk. Combining meticulous scholarship with an engrossing narrative arc, this book holds timely lessons for today. Arnn says, “Churchill’s trial is also our trial. We have a better chance to meet it because we had in him a true statesman.”
In a scholarly, timely, and highly erudite way, Larry Arnn puts the case for Winston Churchill continuing to be seen as statesman from whom the modern world can learn important lessons. In an age when social and political morality seems all too often to be in a state of flux, Churchill’s Trial reminds us of the enduring power of the concepts of courage, duty, and honor.
--Andrew Roberts, New York Times bestselling author of Napoleon: A Life and The Storm of War
Larry Arnn has spent a lifetime studying the life and accomplishments of Winston Churchill. In his lively Churchill’s Trial, Arnn artfully reminds us that Churchill was not just the greatest statesman and war leader of the twentieth century, but also a pragmatic and circumspect thinker whose wisdom resonates on every issue of our times.
--Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University
In absorbing, gracefully written historical and biographical narration, Larry Arnn shows that Churchill, often perceived as inconsistent and opportunistic, was in fact philosophically rigorous and consistent at levels of organization higher and deeper than his detractors are capable of imagining. In Churchill’s Trial Arnn has rendered great service not only to an incomparable statesman but to us, for the magnificent currents that carried Churchill through his trials are as admirable, useful, and powerful in our times as they were in his.
--Mark Helprin, New York Times bestselling author of Winter’s Tale and In Sunlight and in Shadow
Churchill’s Trial, a masterpiece of political philosophy and practical statesmanship, is the one book on Winston Churchill that every undergraduate, every graduate student, every professional historian, and every member of the literate general public should read on this greatest statesman of the twentieth century. The book is beautifully written, divided into three parts–war, empire, peace–and thus covers the extraordinary life of Winston Churchill and the topics which define the era of his statesmanship.
--Lewis E. Lehrman, cofounder of the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg College and distinguished director of the Abraham Lincoln Association
Dr. Larry Arnn
Larry P. Arnn is the president of Hillsdale College. He has been published widely on issues of public policy, history, and political theory, and is the author of Liberty and Learning and The Founders' Key. He lives in Hillsdale, MI.
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Reviews for Churchill's Trial
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Churchills Trial is a significant, readable account of the man who impacted history throughout his remarkable life. The book addresses how he assessed and addressed the challenges of war and peace during a lifetime that bridged the most severe depression in the modern era and the most devastating global wars in history. The challenges of the rise of socialism in a nation that embraced the concept following WWII, brought all his energy and wisdom to limit its deleterious effects while commending the democratic ideals of the will of the people. "For Churchill, the Kaiser's (Germany's final emperor prior to WWI) regime fell on the wrong side of the great divide in government - the divide between nations where "peoples own Governments" and nations where "Governments own peoples."
I highly recommend this read. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Churchill’s Trial/ Larry P. ArnnAn engaging narrative, Churchill’s Trial illuminates the rare but necessary characteristics for true leaders and statesmen. Primary among these are courage, intelligence, a self-sacrificing love of country and, in Churchill’s case, a resolute belief in the primacy of individual freedom. And it is this last immutable characteristic that more than anything defined Winston Churchill. It was the impetus for his stance against the Nazis and Fascists in World War II and later against the Communists and Socialists. Well written and informative, “Churchill’s Trial” is an exposé of Churchill’s prescience regarding technology, war, and the double-edged sword of science in the human condition with utopia or societal ruin hanging in the balance. Its greater value, however, lies in its inspiration to read Churchill in the original. To this end, Dr. Arnn includes three speeches in the appendices: “Fifty Years Hence” (1931); “What Good’s a Constitution” (1936); and “The Sinews of Peace” (1946). In “The Sinews of Peace” Churchill famously coins the term “Iron Curtain” and warns Western Democracies to maintain overwhelming military strength to curb Soviet expansionism so as not to repeat the errors of the past. Here Churchill reflects both his lament at having failed to prevent WWII, what he called “the unnecessary war,” and his pragmatic approach to fight wars quickly and economically. A good informative read. Four stars from this old curmudgeon.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I have mixed feelings about this book, the subject of which is the series of trials faced by Winston Churchill, his country and the world, during his lifetime. Chief among these trials were war and the rise of socialism in countries that were previously free-enterprise capitalistic nations. The book details Churchill's beliefs, actions, reactions, writings, and speeches as he worked to alternately confront or embrace these trials. However, the book comes across as also about what the author believes about these issues. At times it reads as though the content is a 60/40 split between the author's beliefs and Churchill's. Still, the book does a good job of documenting the challenges faced by a great statesman who lived through: the Second World War, the rise of Hitler, Stalin, Russia, socialism within Britain, and rapid scientific advances in both peacetime luxuries and war-making power.