Winston Churchill

WINSTON CHURCHILL, a writer as highly regarded during the Progressive era as his British namesake is now,2 was for almost two decades the most popular novelist in America. In ten of the years between 1899 and 1917 his books were at or near the head of the best-seller lists. Only one of his nine novels failed to rank among the top ten; five led the annual list, two were second, one was third.3 Churchill, moreover, was the only novelist of this period to write successfully in two seemingly antithetical genres. His first triumph came during the vogue of historical romances that flourished at the turn of the century; and when romances were superseded by politi

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• Richard Hofstadter

  Daniel Walker Howe, Peter Elliott Finn•Pacific Historical Review•1974

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