WATCH BECKY ANN BAKER READ “WORKING WITH WINSTON” BY CITA STELZER
BOOK #37 IN OUR '40TH READINGS AT CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS' VIDEO SERIES
Published in 2019, WORKING WITH WINSTON: The Unsung Women Behind Britain’s Greatest Statesman, by CITA STELZER, is the only book to explore the lives and careers of Winston Churchill’s all-female “hidden army” of personal secretaries, extraordinarily capable women who, like their boss, were virtually never off-duty.
We dedicate this reading to Churchill’s last living personal secretary, CECILY “CHIPS” GEMMELL, a great friend of Chartwell Booksellers, who celebrates her 95th Birthday as we release this video, on Christmas Day, 2023. And makes a cameo appearance here. Don’t miss it.
WORKING WITH WINSTON is Book #37 in our 40TH READINGS AT CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS video series, as read by the esteemed actor: BECKY ANN BAKER.
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CITA STELZER is a Churchill Fellow of the National Churchill Museum in Fulton, Missouri and a former member of the Churchill Archives Centre U.S. Advisory board. She has a B.A. from Barnard College, with a major in history, and served as special aide to New York’s Mayor John Lindsay and to Governor Hugh Carey, specializing in energy policy. She is the author of two other books on Winston Churchill, DINNER WITH CHURCHILL: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table (2013), and the forthcoming: CHURCHILL’S AMERICAN NETWORK: Forging the Special Relationship.
BECKY ANN BAKER is a beloved NYC stage actor, who appeared in the original Broadway casts of “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,” “Titanic” and Stephen Sondheim’s “Assassins,” among many others, and an admired onscreen performer, who has starred in over 100 film and television roles, including Freaks and Geeks, as Jean Weir, Girls, as Loreen Horvath, and Spider-Man 3, as Mrs. Stacey. She recently created quite a stir as Ted Lasso’s mom, Dottie Lasso.
40TH READINGS AT CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS
toasts the best 40 books about Winston Churchill published during our forty year existence.
We launched the series on April 11 with actor JOHN LITHGOW reading THE LAST LION.
You can watch that reading: HERE