A friend once said of Churchill: "He is a man of simple tastes; he is quite easily satisfied with the best of everything." But dinners for Churchill were about more than good food, excellent champagnes, and Havana cigars. "Everything" included the opportunity to use the dinner table both as a stage on which to display his brilliant conversational talents, and an intimate setting in which to glean gossip and diplomatic insights and to argue for the many policies he espoused over a long life.
In this riveting, informative, and entertaining book, Stelzer draws on previously untapped material, diaries of guests, and a wide variety of other sources to tell of some of the key dinners at which Churchill presided before, during, and after World War II.
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“Entertaining…The former prime minister considered meals to be an opportunity for
diplomacy and political gamesmanship. He used those moments to charm
and, at times, disarm friends and foes, and viewed each moment as a way
of accomplishing goals that might not be realized through traditional
means. Narrated by Davina Porter, the book is charming and provides
insight into Churchill through a new lens…Porter clearly
enjoys the material, conveying it with the same alacrity that Churchill
likely felt when eating.”
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