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Founders: #319 The Making of Winston Churchill Part 1

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What I learned from reading Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Millard. --- Join my free email newsletter to get my top 10 highlights from every book --- (2:30) He was meant not just to fight for his country, but one day to lead it. Although he believed this without question, he still had to convince everyone else. (3:30) He didn't even have a plan. Just the unshakeable conviction that he was destined for greatness. (4:00) Churchill by Paul Johnson. (Founders #225) (4:30) Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill by Michael Shelden (5:00) The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard. (Founders #175) (8:00) In his open pursuit of fame and popular favor, Churchill seemed far less Victorian than Rooseveltian. (8:30) Winston advertises himself as simply and as unconsciously as he breathes. Churchill was widely criticized for being a self advertiser. (9:30) “I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am a prod." (9:30) Churchill did not need encouragement. He only needed a chance. (11:00) "I have faith in my star. That I am intended to do something in the

[00:00:00] Although he was still a very young man, Churchill was no stranger to situations of great personal peril. He had already taken part in four wars on three different continents and had come close to death in each one. He had felt bullets whistling by his head in Cuba and saw his friends hacked to death in British India. Although he had tried again and again in war after war to win glory, Churchill had returned home every time without the medals that mattered, no more distinguished or famous than he had been when he set out. The Boer War, he believed, was his best chance to change…

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