Becoming Winston Churchill

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

As a young man Winston Churchill was greatly influenced by Bourke Cockran, a charismatic New York City congressman who was Churchill's widowed mother's lover and friend. Cockran was a brilliant trial lawyer and adviser to American presidents. He took young Winston under his wing and gave him unusual insights into the politics of the time. It was a particularly important relationship that shaped Churchill's thinking and political outlook; it also provided a window into the United States that he would take with him all his life. The story is also biographical, told in part as fiction and reproducing for the first time the private correspondence between the two men.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Foreword to the Paperback Edition (p. vii)
• Foreword (2007) (p. x)
• Prologue (p. xi)
• Chapter 1 'He Was My Model' (p. 1)
• Chapter 2 'One of the President's Most Trusted Advisers' (p. 23)
• Chapter 3 'I Have Been Paid Out For All My Own Iniquities' (p. 45)
• Chapter 4 'A Startling Letter' (p. 57)
• Chapter 5 'I Have Great Discussions With Mr. Cockran' (p. 71)
• Chapter 6 'A Very High Opinion of Your Future Career' (p. 81)
• Chapter 7 'You Have Won a Glorious Victory' (p. 93)
• Chapter 8 'Ambition Was The Motive Force' (p. 109)
• Chapter 9 'How Little Time Remains' (p. 125)
• Chapter 10 'The Perfect Man' (p. 145)
• Chapter 11 'One More Sacrifice' (p. 161)
• Chapter 12 'An English Liberal' (p. 185)
• Chapter 13 'Confound the Hostile and Surprise the Indifferent' (p. 201)
• Chapter 14 'Sins of the Father' (p. 223)
• List of Illustrations (p. 249)
• Epilogue (p. 251)
• Authors' Note (p. 253)
• Acknowledgements (p. 255)
• Notes (p. 257)
• Index (p. 269)