The Churchill Myths 0198851960, 9780198851967

This is not a book about Winston Churchill. It is not principally about his politics, nor his rhetorical imagination, no

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Table of contents :
Cover
The Churchill Myths
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
Introduction
The Meaning of Myths
History and the Churchill Myths
Brexit and the Churchill Myths
The Principles of the Book
1 Brexit May 1940
Digital Pasts
Men of Destiny
Brexit May 1940
Mythic Churchill
England’s Populism: 1940
England’s Populism: Brexit
2 The Churchill Syndrome
The Battle for Churchill’s Reputation
Bulldog
The Special Relationship
Between Europe and the Open Sea
Attack from the Right-Flank
Puffing on an Invisible Cigar
Boom or Bust?
The Changing Face of British Nostalgia
3 Persistence and Change in Churchill’s Mythic Memory
Precedents and Parallels
Celebrating the National Icon
A Transatlantic Churchill
The Long Road to Young Winston
Baiting the Myth
The Great Man
The Reassertion of a Deeper Myth
A Confusion of Churchills
Epilogue
Endnotes
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Epilogue
Index

The Churchill Myths
0198851960, 9780198851967