HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY FROM CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS!

July brings the 4th and, with it, an increasingly urgent question: How, in these darkening times, do we celebrate America’s 249th Independence Day in the spirit of Winston Churchill?

The answer, very hopefully, is in these books:

THE GREAT REPUBLIC collects all of Churchill’s major essays about the U.S.A. (approximately 130 pages-worth), plus everything that he wrote about America in his A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (approximately 230 pages). Subtitled: “A History of America,” the resulting volume, edited and arranged by Sir Winston’s grandson, constituted an entirely new Churchill work when it was published in 1999.

HEROES OF HISTORY was the third spin-off volume from Churchill’s A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, repackaging excerpts from the original four-volume set. Issued in 1968, it is a  fascinating collection of thirteen extracted personality profiles, including quite penetrating pieces on George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

CHURCHILL AND AMERICA is a masterful examination of Winston Churchill’s extraordinary 70-year relationship with the United States, by his official biographer, the esteemed Sir Martin Gilbert.“Never be separated from the Americans,” Churchill told his cabinet in his final words to them as Prime Minister in 1955.

Lastly, something patriotically stirring for the walls:

A rare, vintage WPA poster of Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt in bust-length, hand-drawn portraits beneath their respective national flags. An image of the Statue of Liberty appears with the headlines (above): “United for Victory – Liberty for All,” and (below): “Democracy Shall Not Die. God Gave Us Courage. America Gave Us Strength.”