{"id":28914,"date":"2025-11-30T23:24:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T23:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=28914"},"modified":"2025-11-30T23:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T23:26:14","slug":"book-review-churchill-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=28914","title":{"rendered":"BOOK REViEW: Churchill, Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"362\" height=\"552\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_4998.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28915\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_4998.jpg 362w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_4998-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/stars_09_fourhalf-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28916\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/stars_09_fourhalf-1.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/stars_09_fourhalf-1-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Roy Jenkins concludes his epic biography by deciding Churchill trumps Gladstone as \u2018the greatest human being ever to occupy 10 Downing Street.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I loved reading this superbly written and fascinating account of the man voted (in a 2002 BBC poll) the \u2018Greatest Briton\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Churchill\u2019s energy and zest for life were amazing. And what a life he lived. From war correspondent to Boer War prisoner, from MP to author of articles and history books, from the front benches to PM, via periods of acclaim to times in the wilderness\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Written with balance, wit and verve by a fellow MP\/politician. This is essential reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Jenkins concludes his epic biography by deciding Churchill trumps Gladstone as \u2018the greatest human being ever to occupy 10 Downing Street.\u2019 I loved reading this superbly written and fascinating account of the man voted (in a 2002 BBC poll) the \u2018Greatest Briton\u2019. Churchill\u2019s energy and zest for life were amazing. And what a life &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=28914\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BOOK REViEW: Churchill, Jenkins&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"BOOK REViEW: Churchill, Jenkins","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-7wm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28914"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28918,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28914\/revisions\/28918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}