A real jewel on the life & influence of WC It needs a glossary for all the "erudite" words Churchill Factor glossary Conundrum - riddle lissom - thin, supple, graceful plangent- loud panache-flambount Elysian -heavenly stele - vascular cylinder titfer- a hat transmogrifying - transformer rumbustious - unruly hyperbolical confected effulgent mordant Falstaffian poseur potations apocryphal Franglais bugger queuetopia unsordid dodgy tripe bolshy Whiggish Toryism. avuncular mollycoddled philoprogenitive eirenic prescient cant calumnies ossuaries rectitude rubicund Junkers Boadicea satrapy Cassandra charnel-house polemicists Ploegsteert Stella hoplites chivvy sponsons antediluvian bowsers trebuchet boffins wonk twig Kriegsmarine Stilton-eating scupper rosbifs perfidious Albion lighter pellucid elided

Mayor Johnson endeavors to bring forth the high point accomplishments of Churchill, placing these key points in history not just in the context of their in-situ effect but results as seen in today's British and American culture, politics, and development. Well written and in the style Johnson thinks, writes, and speaks, it does go a bit far making the case for Churchill as the main player in the mid-1900's. You can take exception to some of his statements but you have to agree main conclusion. Churchill mattered and acted when others dared not too.