Comments on: Lessons in Manliness from Winston Churchill

By: Anglophile Reviews: The Art of Manliness Book | Anglotopia

Anglophile Reviews: The Art of Manliness Book | Anglotopia — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:32:14 +0000

[...] blog the book is based on, The Art of Manliness and I’ve written a guest post for the site (Churchill’s Manly Qualities), but that did not influence my review of this [...]

By: Anglophile Reviews: The Art of Manliness Book | Anglotopia

Anglophile Reviews: The Art of Manliness Book | Anglotopia — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:32:14 +0000

[...] blog the book is based on, The Art of Manliness and I’ve written a guest post for the site (Churchill’s Manly Qualities), but that did not influence my review of this [...]

By: Luke - AspiringGentleman

Luke - AspiringGentleman — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:01:44 +0000

Another lesson: smoke a single cigar enough and they might even name it after you.

By: Robbo

Robbo — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:45:49 +0000

“He rose late, worked in bed in the morning, took a bath and nap in the afternoons and worked into the night, often until 4 am”

This is how I prefer to operate too. I knew I was on to something!

By: Liam

Liam — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:44:42 +0000

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm” has long been a maxim of mine!

Truly one of the greatest Britons in history.

By: kultron

kultron — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:47:04 +0000

Ok guys, sending thousands of men to die in Turkey for the most absurd reasons makes a real man eh? The last one in a very long line of British butchers, who made thousands die (whether it be their own people or others) for their own pointless gains.

By: Dealing with Male Depression | The Art of Manliness

Dealing with Male Depression | The Art of Manliness — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:13:14 +0000

[...] men in history who suffered from depression are numerous: Abraham Lincoln, Ernest Hemingway, Winston Churchill, and Buzz Aldrin to name a few. Buzz Aldrin overcame his depression and alcoholism, eventually [...]

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links for 2009-08-31 « Blarney Fellow — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:13:52 +0000

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By: BlackTiger

BlackTiger — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:35:31 +0000

I am proud that he was part-AMERICAN in blood, wholly British in temper, and doggedly Determined in Character. Flaws? Yes, but who doesn’t have a few? Frankly, there are too few like him on EITHER side of the Atlantic (or any other body of water).

BTW: a friend recommended Churchill’s techniques of presentation as illustrated in an excellent book on Public Speaking (as a Manly Art): James C. Humes’ “Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln” (Three Rivers Press). After ONE night’s reading of my local library’s copy, I KNEW I should add it to my personal library – and I sincerely recommend it. Get. This. Book. Immediately. Now! (Amazon has them in stock at the time of this posting).

By: Raz Shafer

Raz Shafer — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:50:16 +0000

Winston was without a doubt one of the manliest men of all time. I’ve studied him extensively and wrote my college senior thesis about him. Such a great role model in so many areas.
On a side note, he achieved that level of greatness with very little assistance or encouragement from his parents. They gave him a nanny when he was pretty young. His mother neglected him, not even willing to come see him at his boarding school when he sent letters begging her to come at the age of 6. His father had syphilis which went untreated and caused dementia which caused him to be always critical of Winston and never give approval of anything he did.

By: FP

FP — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:47:41 +0000

Small point of pedantry – Churchill actually lost the 1950 election. It was 1951 when he was re-elected as Prime Minister.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:42:00 +0000

Interesting post and comments.

I’d recommend a radio show based on minutes of the wartime cabinet meetings that you can get here:
http://speechification.com/2008/07/04/charles-wheeler/

The show’s both interesting and entertaining. I was surprised by the extent to which Churchill’s government was very much a Cabinet government.

You get a sense of the difference then between a Prime Minister and a President, of Churchill striving to get a consensus, and sometimes not getting his own way. You could argue this makes for better decision making, at least, in a British context

By: Greg T

Greg T — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:26:37 +0000

My favorite war of words was between Churchill and George Bernard Shaw. Shaw sent Churchill two tickets for the opening night of his new play, “for you and an friend, if you have one.” Churchill sent his regrets saying would like two for the second night “if there is one.”

By: Steve Anthony

Steve Anthony — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:46:54 +0000

My two sons refer to me as a Churchill “sack rider”. Guilty as charged.

By: Perry Clease

Perry Clease — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:07:03 +0000

“If you want a good Churchill read, try “The World Crisis.”

I also recommend “The Last Lion”

“He lost the Admiralty post in 1916 (IIRC) over the failure of the Dardanelles assault”

I think that he resigned, but whatever happened he next rejoined his regiment and served in the trenches. I guess that it as kind of an atonement or something along those lines.

I think that forcing the Dardanelles was the right idea, but wrongly executed. Had it succeeded then maybe it would have broken the stalemate in France and maybe the Russian Revolution would not have happened.