Volume 7, Number 10 · December 15, 1966
Churchill and Macmillan
By Conor Cruise O'Brien
Winston S. Churchill, Vol. I., Youth 1974-1900
by Randolph S. Churchill
Houghton Mifflin, 614 pp., $10.00
Winds of Change
by Harold Macmillan
Harper & Row, 584 pp., $10.00
Mr. Randolph. Churchill tells us in his preface that his life of his father is to be filial, objective, and colossal. Filial it clearly is; that it seeks to be objective the present volume gives no reason to doubt; that it is planned as colossal is already all too plain. The present volume, covering Churchill's life up to the accession of Edward VII ('I am glad he has got his innings at last and am most interested to watch how he plays it') has more than thirty pages of introductory matter, 528 pages of text, sixteen pages of genealogical tables and a 65-page index 'compiled by G. Norman Knight M.A. Chairman of the Society of Indexers' and containing such nuggets as
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