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From William McKinley to Richard Nixon, renowned biographer Andrew Roberts delivers a tour d’horizon of all the U.S. presidents whom Winston Churchill met. Discover Churchill’s relationships with American chief executives, from his wartime interactions with Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman to his friendship with Dwight Eisenhower and his lesser-known contacts with all the others.

Program Update: Due to ongoing travel restrictions between the United States and the United Kingdom, this program will now take place live on Zoom rather than in person.

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Winston Churchill, unlike many of his age, class, and background in England, was a lifelong philo-Semite. He was a Zionist who liked Jews, went on holiday with them, admired them, defended them, and recognized them as giving Western Civilization its ethics. Andrew Roberts investigates the relationship between Churchill and the Jews.

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In order to successfully bind his internationally bestselling Churchill: Walking with Destiny, historian Andrew Roberts had to cut 60,000 words. Like a movie director producing his uncut version, he will relate those parts of his book that had to be excised, which are equally as interesting as what was left in.

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Amongst his many other attributes, Winston Churchill was an historian who had a powerful, living sense of the past which he used as a guide for the present. Sometimes this worked wonderfully, at others it let him down badly. His biographer Andrew Roberts will investigate Churchill’s sense of history and how it affected his statesmanship.

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One of the most extraordinary things about Winston Churchill becoming British Prime Minister in May 1940 was that he was alive at all. He survived more than 20 near-death experiences in his life, including a very serious accident on Fifth Avenue. Andrew Roberts tells us how they shaped his thoughts on life, ambition, death, and fate.

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In this, the first of a new 10-part lecture series on Winston Churchill, historian Andrew Roberts examines Churchill’s description of becoming prime minister in May 1940: “I felt as if I were walking with destiny and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial.”