{"product_id":"in-churchills-shadow-david-cannadine-9780195171563","title":"In Churchill's Shadow: Confronting the Past in Modern Britain","description":"With \u003cem\u003eIn Churchill's Shadow\u003c\/em\u003e, David Cannadine offers an intriguing look at ways in which perceptions of a glorious past have continued to haunt the British present, often crushing efforts to shake them off. The book centers on Churchill, a titanic figure whose influence spanned the century. Though he was the savior of modern Britain, Churchill was a creature of the Victorian age. Though he proclaimed he had not become Prime Minister to \"preside over the liquidation of the British Empire,\" in effect he was doomed to do just that. And though he has gone down in history for his defiant orations during the crisis of World War II, Cannadine shows that for most of his career Churchill's love of rhetoric was his own worst enemy.\u003cbr\u003e Cannadine turns an equally insightful gaze on the institutions and individuals that embodied the image of Britain in this period: Gilbert \u0026amp; Sullivan, Ian Fleming, Noel Coward, the National Trust, and the Palace of Westminster itself, the home and symbol of Britain's parliamentary government. This superb volume offers a wry, sympathetic, yet penetrating look at how national identity evolved in the era of the waning of an empire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Cannadine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 019517156X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195171563\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 385\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.06d","brand":"David Cannadine","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47452504228095,"sku":"9780195171563","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3125c5e4-fb50-4af1-9d8b-e083eb4f8198.jpg?v=1761928815","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-churchills-shadow-david-cannadine-9780195171563","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}