Philip White (1)
Autor/a de Our Supreme Task: How Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech Defined the Cold War Alliance
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Philip White is the author of Our Supreme Task: How Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech Defined the Cold War Alliance and is a frequent contributor to the Huffing-ton Post.
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- Obres
- 2
- Membres
- 101
- Popularitat
- #188,710
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 13
- ISBN
- 19
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- 1
Reading this book during the 2020 presidential campaign season it's fascinating to reflect on the fact that even though the times are very different, so much of politics actually remains the same. There are snippets of some of Truman's Whistle Stop speeches in the book, and you could easily imagine very similar words coming out of Joe Biden's mouth today. On the other hand, the Republican candidate, Thomas Dewey, was very laid-back (too much so it turns out), while Truman was accused of "brass knuckle fighting" based on the content of some of his speeches - a party/role reversal from then to now.… (més)