Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill - Hardcover

Michael Shelden is an award-winning journalist and biographer. He has published biographies of, among others, George Orwell, Mark Twain and Graham Greene, and has written extensively for a numbr of international publications,including the Daily Telegraph and the New York Times.

""Young Titan" gives us an exciting, needed look at Winston Churchill in his years as a Liberal. Breaking with the Conservatives, he battled for better working conditions, for unemployment insurance, for improvements in education. He waged a two-front war: against the Tories on the right, the socialists on the left. It is the young Churchill at his best, a great foretelling of what was to come when Britain and the world needed him most."--Chris Matthews, author of "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero" and anchor of MSNBC's "Hardball "

"Michael Shelden has done the nigh-impossible: he has found original things to say about the man Isaiah Berlin called 'the largest human being of our time'--Winston Churchill. In this entertaining and deeply researched book, Shelden paints a memorable portrait of the young Churchill's life and loves."--Jon Meacham, author of "American Lion"

"For history buffs, Winston Churchill is the gift that keeps on giving, and in "Young Titan" Michael Shelden has given us the gift of Churchill's fascinating formative years. It's all here--the boy wonder, adventurer, romantic, orator, and eloquent man in the arena. I didn't want it to end."--Tom Brokaw, author of "The Greatest Generation"