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Geboortedatum: 1871-11-10
Overlijdensdatum: 1947-03-12
Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: USA
Geboorteplaats: St Louis, Missouri, USA
Plaats van overlijden: Winter Park, Florida, USA
Woonplaatsen: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Cornish, New Hampshire, USA
Winter Park, Florida, USA
Opleiding: Smith Academy, Missouri, USA
United States Naval Academy
Beroepen: author
novelist
artist
politician
Relaties: Churchill, Creighton (son)
Organisaties: National Institute of Arts and Letters ( [1908])
United States Navy

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Churchill Biographies in Non-Fiction Readers (juni 2011)

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The inside of the cup / by Winston Churchill; with… door Winston (1874-1965) Churchill

$5 on Abe

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susangeib | 4 andere besprekingen | Oct 28, 2022 |

The crisis door Winston Churchill

Fair, some mold, "Clarinda B Boltwood Presented by Mr and Mrs George S Boltwood, June 6, 1901"

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GoshenMAHistory | 4 andere besprekingen | Apr 4, 2022 |

A Traveller In War-Time door Winston Churchill

A non-fiction book by American author Winston Churchill recounting his travels in Europe during World War I. Released in July 1918 with the full title A Traveller in War-time with an Essay on the American Contribution and the Democratic Idea, the essay comprises about half of the book. It was Churchill's first non-fiction book.

Especially compared to his string of best-selling novels, the book was not successful, selling only about 8,000 copies.

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Craighead_House | Jul 30, 2021 |

The Inside of the Cup door Winston S. Churchill

https://nwhyte.livejournal.com/3543599.html

Winston Churchill was a well-known American writer who happened to have the same name as a well-known British politician, three years younger than him. Back in 1913 and 1914, this novel was the best-selling book of the year in the USA, and I acquired it for the centenary in 2014, but have only now got around to reading it.

The Inside of the Cup is the story of a clergyman who is hired to service the upper classes of a city that is probably St Louis, and comes to the realisation that to really implement Christianity he is going to have to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. The title comes from Jesus' admonition to the Pharisees in Matthew's Gospel:

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
Οὐαὶ ὑμῖν, γραμματεῖς καὶ Φαρισαῖοι ὑποκριταί, ὅτι καθαρίζετε τὸ ἔξωθεν τοῦ ποτηρίου καὶ τῆς παροψίδος, ἔσωθεν δὲ γέμουσιν ἐξ ἁρπαγῆς καὶ ἀκρασίας.

You know what way it's going to go as soon as the richest parishioner's estranged and nobly minded daughter hoves into view. The scandalous bit of the book, which frankly is rather boring now, is that the protagonist decides that believing in the virgin birth etc is not as important as Doing Good. It's awfully over-written and seems to go on for a very long time. Still, I think I'd like to visit St Louis some time on the basis of this.… (meer)

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nwhyte | 4 andere besprekingen | Dec 27, 2020 |

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