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Thomas E. Ricks, "Churchill & Orwell"
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June 6, 2017
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42:07Now PlayingIn this inspiring dual biography, Ricks, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter on defense issues who now writes the “Best Defense” blog for Foreign Policy, presents Winston Churchill and George Orwell as two of the twentieth century’s great freedom fighters. Focusing on the mid-1930s to the mid-1940s, a period when democracy was losing ground to the deceptive idealisms of communism and fascism, Ricks, whose previous books include Fiasco and The Generals, charts Churchill’s rise from the failure of Gallipoli and Orwell’s climb from obscurity, seeing both men as compelled to act, speak, and write in defense of human liberty and against all forms of authoritarianism.
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