Savior of the West.(Churchill: A Study in Greatness)

From: National Review | Date: December 31, 2001| Author: MAHONEY, DANIEL J. | Copyright information

Churchill: A Study in Greatness, by Geoffrey Best (Hambledon, 384 pp., $29.95)

In his remarkable essay "Winston Churchill in 1940," originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1949, Isaiah Berlin paid tribute to Churchill's greatness. In Berlin's judgment, Churchill was "the largest human being of our time," a "gigantic historical figure" whose "work and person will remain the object of scrutiny and judgment to many generations." This has always been the popular vie...

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