Winston Churchill’s other lives

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1、WinstonChurchill’sotherlivesMrhigh-rollerThegamblerwhosavedtheWestNattydresser NoMoreChampagne:ChurchillandHisMoney.ByDavidLough.Picador;544pages;$32.HeadofZeus;532pages;£25. WinstonChurchillReporting:AdventuresofaYoungWarCorrespondent.BySimonRead.  DaCapoPress;309pages;

2、$26.99.HISTORIANSandmanymembersofthepublicalreadyknowthatWinstonChurchilloftentookhigh-stakesgamblesinhispoliticallife.Some,likethedisastrousDardanellescampaign—anaudaciousattempthemastermindedattheAdmiraltytoseizethestraitsofGallipoliandknockTurkeyoutofthefirstworldwar—

3、hegotwrong.Others,notablyhisdecisionasprimeministerin1940toholdoutagainstNaziGermanyuntilAmericacametorescueBritain,hegotspectacularlyright.ButtheextenttowhichChurchillwasagamblerinotherspheresofhislifehastendednottocatchhisbiographers’attention.Twonewbooksattempttofillt

4、hisgap.Thefirstis“NoMoreChampagne”byDavidLough,aprivate-banker-turned-historianwholooksatChurchill’spersonalfinancesduringtheupsanddownsofhiscareer.Itisthefirstbiographytofocusonthisaspectofhislife.MrLoughhastrawledthroughChurchill’spersonalaccountsandfoundthathewasasmuc

5、harisk-takerwhenitcametohismoneyashewaswhenhewasmakingdecisionsattheAdmiraltyorinDowningStreet.AlthoughChurchillwasdescendedfromtheDukesofMarlborough,hisparentshad“verylittlemoneyoneitherside”—thoughthatneverstoppedthemlivingthehighlife.NeitherdidithampertheyoungChurchil

6、l;hespentwildlyoneverythingfrompoloponiestoHavanacigars,ahabithepickedupasawarcorrespondentinCuba.Indeed,between1908and1914theChurchillhouseholdspentanaverageof£1,160onwinealoneeachyear—£104,400($145,000)intoday’smoney.Itisnowonder,then,thatChurchillspentmostofhislifelea

7、pingfromonecashflowcrisistoanother,beingperenniallybehindwithhissuppliers’bills.Anothernewbook,“WinstonChurchillReporting”,bySimonRead,anAmericanjournalist,looksatoneofthewaysChurchilleventuallypaidsomeofthem:writing.MrReadinvestigateshowChurchillwentfromayoungarmyoffice

8、rcadettobeingBritain’shighest-earningwarcorrespondentbytheageof25,gettingthejournalismbugfortherestofhi