![]() Now, in the age of Brexit, Churchill becomes the mirror in which bewildered Britons can find consoling fantasies of national greatness. Both Roy Jenkins and Boris Johnson found new angles of approach to this protean subject. Besides, if you don’t fancy Roberts’s version, there are more than 1,000 Churchill biographies. ![]() Better a biographer with sneaking admiration than one who embarks on a psychological guerrilla war with his subject. This is certainly one way to illuminate a myth, without descending into hagiography. ![]() Roberts not only revels in the ironies and paradoxes of the past, as Churchill did, he is more than a little in thrall to the old bruiser’s intoxicating aura. Churchill is possibly the historian’s dream, a true life hero who adored his island’s story, which he lived and wrote about during a roller-coaster career. ![]()
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