Lord Randolph Churchill

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Politics & Social Sciences

Lord Rosebery's 1906 biographical study of the Conservative politician Lord Randolph Churchill, father of Winston Churchill. Rosebery, a friend and political opponent, draws on personal memories to portray Lord Randolph's brilliant, erratic career, from leader of the Fourth Party and Tory Democracy to his resignation as Chancellor of the Exchequer and early decline.

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• Winston Churchill: “He has enriched our language with a series of biographical studies, terse, pregnant and authoritative... Pitt, Peel, Randolph Churchill, are literary gems.”