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“THE DAUGHTERS OF YALTA:” A Socially-Distanced Conversation with Catherine Grace Katz

Watch our webcast with author Catherine Grace Katz, celebrating the publication of THE DAUGHTERS OF YALTA, streaming right here or on our YouTube channel.

CHURCHILL OUT OF HIBERNATION, WEEK 16

The impending publication of a marvelous new book has inspired us to undertake an author event at Chartwell Bookseller; scrupulously social distanced, of course. (No guests at all.) The book is: THE DAUGHTERS OF YALTA. The author is Catherine Grace Katz. Her event will stream on our YouTube channel Friday, October 2, at 5:00pm (cocktail time).

CHURCHILL OUT OF HIBERNATION, WEEK 15

Winston Churchill wrote his own history of the First World War:
THE WORLD CRISIS. 

We journey to it next in our voyage around the works of Winston Churchill.

CHURCHILL OUT OF HIBERNATION, WEEK 14

THE PEOPLE’S RIGHTS is something of a campaign collectable from the 1910 General Election; a compendium of six fiery Churchill speeches attacking the Conservative Party for not supporting “The People’s Budget.” We catch up to it next, and at just the right moment, in our tour of Winston Churchill’s books.

CHURCHILL OUT OF HIBERNATION, WEEK 13

Winston Churchill’s first widely-distributed hardcover collection of political speeches was LIBERALISM AND THE SOCIAL PROBLEM. Published in November 1909, these century-old Churchillian orations speak to us more resonantly, pointedly and urgently right now than you would think possible.

CHURCHILL OUT OF HIBERNATION, WEEK 12

MY AFRICAN JOURNEY is a Churchillian travelogue documenting Churchill’s vacation scamper through East Africa in 1907.

We visit it next in our stroll through the book-length works of Winston Churchill.

CHURCHILL OUT OF HIBERNATION, WEEK 11

Our stroll through the works of Winston Churchill carries us back into the realm of the rarest of Churchill rarities: FOR FREE TRADE, a companion piece to MR. BRODRICK’s ARMY. Together, these two constitute the Holy Grail of Churchill book collecting. 

And yes, we do have one.

CHURCHILL OUT OF HIBERNATION, WEEK 10

Not many sons get to write their father’s biography. Winston Churchill wrote a biography of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, when he was just 31.  In our stroll through his works, LORD RANDOLPH is our next stop.

CHURCHILL OUT OF HIBERNATION, WEEK 9

MR. BRODRICK’S ARMY is the holy grail of Churchill book collecting; the rarest and most precious volume in the Churchill canon.

In our ongoing stroll through our shelves, we visit it next… if we can only find one.

CHURCHILL OUT OF HIBERNATION, WEEK 8

IAN HAMILTON’S MARCH looms next on our march-time stroll through the works of Winston Churchill. Paired with LONDON TO LADYSMITH, it is the second and final volume in Churchill’s Boer War narrative.

So, who was Ian Hamilton?

CHURCHILL OUT OF HIBERNATION, WEEK 7

Our stroll through the works of Winston Churchill downshifts into a march, with LONDON TO LADYSMITH, the first of two books that Churchill would write on the Boer War in South Africa. As always, the nuance of Churchill’s thinking proved just as enthralling as the blood and guts details of his reportage.

CHURCHILL OUT OF HIBERNATION, WEEK 6

Winston Churchill’s third book, SAVROLA, was also his only novel. We visit it next in our out-of-hibernation stroll through our shelves.  SAVROLA is a work of dystopian fiction. In it, Churchill imagines a popularly-elected President hellbent on becoming a dictator. No, you can’t make this stuff up. But Churchill did.