Dinner with Churchill
Policy-Making at the Dinner Table
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Davina Porter
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Cita Stelzer
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A friend once said of Churchill: "He is a man of simple tastes; he is quite easily satisfied with the best of everything." But dinners for Churchill were about more than good food, excellent champagnes, and Havana cigars. "Everything" included the opportunity to use the dinner table both as a stage on which to display his brilliant conversational talents, and an intimate setting in which to glean gossip and diplomatic insights and to argue for the many policies he espoused over a long life.
In this riveting, informative, and entertaining book, Stelzer draws on previously untapped material, diaries of guests, and a wide variety of other sources to tell of some of the key dinners at which Churchill presided before, during, and after World War II.
©2014 Cita Stelzer (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Charming
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Dinner with Churchill
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The author takes you right to the historic places.
Between Roosevelt, Stalin and Truman, With Foie gras, clear soup and cigars.
Well researched and made me want to try a few of those recipes.
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