title: Churchill: A Study in Greatness
author:  Geoffrey Best 
description: <br>"Reminds us that is still possible, at a time when irony and cynicism are so much the fashion, to pay tribute to greatness without being hagiographical."--<em>New Republic</em>
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  Copyright © 2020 by Erik Larson
  
  Reader’s guide copyright © 2020 by Penguin Random House LLC.
  
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  Churchill:
  
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  Winston S. Churchill.
  
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  Trustees of the Mass Observation Archive.
  
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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  Names: Larson, Erik, 1954– author.
  
  Title: The splendid and the vile / Erik Larson.
  
  Description: First edition. | New York : Crown, [2020] | Includes
  bibliographical r