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020			_a9780143110880 (paperback)
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100	1		_aRicks, Thomas E. _q(Thomas Edwin), _d1955- _93496
245	1	0	_aChurchill and Orwell : _bthe fight for freedom / _cThomas E. Ricks.
264		1	_aNew York : _bPenguin Press, _c2018.
300			_a339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c22 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"First published in the United States of America by Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2017. Published in Penguin Books 2018"--Title page verso
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe Two Winstons -- Churchill the Adventurer -- Orwell the Policeman -- Churchill : Down and Out in the 1930s -- Orwell Becomes "Orwell" : Spain 1937 -- Churchill Becomes "Churchill" : Spring 1940 -- Fighting the Germans, Reaching Out to the Americans : 1940- 1941 -- Churchill, Orwell, and the Class War in Britain : 1941 -- Enter the Americans : 1941-1942 -- Grim Visions of the Postwar World : 1943 -- Animal Farm : 1943-1945 -- Churchill (and Britain) in Decline and Triumph : 1944-1945 -- Churchill's Revenge : The War Memoirs -- Orwell in Triumph and Decline : 1945-1950 -- Churchill's Premature Afterlife : 1950-1965 -- Orwell's Extraordinary Ascension : 1950-2016 -- Afterword: The Path of Churchill and Orwell.
520	2		_a"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, with a focus on the pivotal years from the mid-1930s through the 1940s, when their farsighted vision and inspired action in the face of the threat of fascism and communism helped preserve democracy for the world. Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's--Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time, Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to his class and party suspect. Orwell was a mildly successful novelist, to put it generously. No one would have predicted that by the end of the 20th century they would be considered two of the most important people in British history for having the vision and courage to campaign tirelessly, in words and in deeds, against the totalitarian threat from both the left and the right. Together, to an extent not sufficiently appreciated, they kept the West's compass set toward freedom as its due north. It's not easy to recall now how lonely a position both men once occupied. By the late 1930's, democracy was discredited in many circles, and authoritarian rulers were everywhere in the ascent. There were some who decried the scourge of communism, but saw in Hitler and Mussolini 'men we could do business with,' if not in fact saviors. And there were others who saw the Nazi and fascist threat as malign, but tended to view communism as the path to salvation. Churchill and Orwell, on the other hand, had the foresight to see clearly that the issue was human freedom--that whatever its coloration, a government that denied its people basic freedoms was a totalitarian menace and had to be resisted. In the end, Churchill and Orwell proved their age's necessary men. The glorious climax of Churchill and Orwell is the work they both did in the decade of the 1940'sto triumph over freedom's enemies. And though Churchill played the larger role in the defeat of Hitler and the Axis, Orwell's reckoning with the menace of authoritarian rule in Animal Farm and 1984 would define the stakes of the Cold War for its 50-year course, and continues to give inspiration to fighters for freedom to this day. Taken together, in Thomas E. Ricks's masterful hands, their lives are a beautiful testament to the power of moral conviction, and to the courage it can take to stay true to it, through thick and thin"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aChurchill, Winston, _d1874-1965.
600	1	4	_aChurchill, Winston, _cSir, _d1874-1965 _9812
600	1	4	_aOrwell, George, _d1903-1950.
600	1	0	_aOrwell, George, _d1903-1950. _911719
600	1	0	_aChurchill, Winston, _d1874-1965 _xPolitical and social views.
600	1	0	_aOrwell, George, _d1903-1950 _xPolitical and social views.
650		0	_aPrime ministers _zGreat Britain _vBiography.
650		4	_aPrimeros ministros _vBiografías _zGran Bretaña _9694
650		0	_aAuthors, English _y20th century _vBiography.
650		4	_aAutores ingleses _ySiglo XX _vBiografías _91462
650		0	_aFascism _xHistory _y20th century.
650		4	_aFascismo _xHistoria _ySiglo XX _929660
650		0	_aCommunism _xHistory _y20th century.
650		4	_aComunismo _xHistoria _ySiglo XX _93572
650		0	_aWorld politics _y1933-1945.
650		4	_aPolítica mundial _y1933-1945 _93242
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xPolitics and government _y1936-1945.
651		4	_aGran Bretaña _xPolítica y gobierno _y1936-1945 _933
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aRicks, Thomas E., author. _tChurchill and Orwell _dNew York : Penguin Press, 2017 _z9780698164543 _w(DLC) 2016059876
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