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Founders Notes: Winston Churchill

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The Making of Winston Churchill Part 1 David Senra So about a year and a half years ago, I read one of my favorite biographies of Winston Churchill. It was written by Paul Johnson. It's only like 170 or 180 pages long. And I thought it was excellent. It was episode 225, if you haven't listened to it. But what's fascinating is the cover of that book, made me think of something. All the pictures in my mind and the things that I've ever seen of Winston Churchill were like the Winston Churchill that fought the Nazis. And yet the cover of Paul Johnson's book has four different pictures, two of them are of a young Winston Churchill. So after that, I realized, hey, I should really read -- I mean, what's the subtitle, The Making of Winston Churchill. So I've always been fascinated by these biographies. And I've read a couple of them where they cover the first 20, 30, maybe 40 years of somebody's life. And so I ordered two books, that I could find on young Winston Churchill, one is called The Young Tycoon and I ordered the book that I'm holding in my hand. I will leave both links below in case you want to get them. But the reason I started -- I wanted to start with this one is because the a

The Making of Winston Churchill Part 1 David Senra So about a year and a half years ago, I read one of my favorite biographies of Winston Churchill. It was written by Paul Johnson. It's only like 170 or 180 pages long. And I thought it was excellent. It was episode 225, if you haven't listened to it. But what's fascinating is the cover of that book, made me think of something. All the pictures in my mind and the things that I've ever seen of Winston Churchill were like the Winston Churchill that fought the Nazis. And yet the cover of Paul Johnson's book has four different pictures, two of…

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