Dinner with Churchill : policy-making at the dinner table / Cita Stelzer.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Pegasus Books : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., 2013, ©2012.Edition: 1st Pegasus books cloth edDescription: xvi, 338 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781605985299
- 1605985295
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 941.084 S824 | Available | 33111010958151 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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- including the important conferences at which he used his considerable skills to attempt to persuade his allies, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, to fight the war according to his strategic vision.
Includes bibliographical reference (pages 309-320) and index.
Introduction / Andrew Roberts -- The importance of dinners -- Meeting off Newfoundland August 1941 -- Christmas in the White House December 1941 -- January 1942 -- Dinners in Moscow August 1942 -- Adana January 1943 -- Teheran November 1943 -- Yalta February 1945 -- Meeting at Potsdam July 1945 -- From Fulton to Bermuda: the limits of dinner-table diplomacy -- Food -- Champagne, whisky and brandy -- Cigars -- Rationing -- Dinners -- Endnotes.
A colorful and eloquent look at Churchill as he has never been seen before. With fascinating new insights into the food he ate, the champagne he loved, and the important guests he charmed, this delectable volume is a sumptuous and intellectual treat.