“温斯顿·丘吉尔是二十世纪最有影响力的人物之一，他的传记确实有很多。但这种影响是什么？他是如何利用这种影响来推动他和他的国家的野心的？威廉·内斯特教授首次深入研究丘吉尔的生活和行为，以检验他如何巧妙地操纵事件，使他处于有利地位。”权力的象征。他对权力的渴望在他闯入的任何地方都引发了政治争议。那些不得不直接与他打交道的人要么爱他，要么恨他。他的敌人谴责他是个利己主义者，公开的猎犬，两面派，马基雅维里主义者，指责他的朋友，甚至他自己都不能否认。他只能以政治家和改革者的身份为英国服务，因为他是一位老谋深算的政治家，在1899年至1955年间参加的21次选举中赢得了16次。下议院是丘吉尔的政治殿堂，他在这里发表演讲和发表长篇大论，在幕后进行马匹交易和同志情谊。他一生中的大部分时间都是卡桑德拉，对共产主义、纳粹主义和核末日的威胁发出警告。凭借超越思维箱的思考能力和连接遥远点的能力，他清楚地预言了几乎所有其他人都不知道的事件。然而，他肯定并不总是对的，有时甚至大错特错。这是第一本探讨丘吉尔如何理解和主张权力艺术的书，主要是通过他通过演讲和写作表达的数百种见解。”
Winston Churchill and the Art of Leadership: How Winston Changed the World
“Many indeed, are the biographies of Winston Churchill, one of the most influential figures of the twentieth century. But what was that influence and how did he use it in the furtherance of his and his country’s ambitions? For the first time, Professor William Nestor has delved into the life and actions of Churchill to examine just how skillfully he manipulated events to placed him in positions of power. His thirst for power stirred political controversy wherever he intruded. Those who had to deal directly with him either loved or hated him. His enemies condemned him for being an egoist, publicity hound, double-dealer, and Machiavellian, accusations that his friends and even he himself could not deny. He could only serve Britain as a statesman and a reformer because he was a wily politician who won sixteen of twenty-one elections that he contested between 1899 and 1955.The House of Commons was Churchill’s political temple where he exalted in the speeches and harangues on the floor and the backroom horse-trading and camaraderie. Most of his life he was a Cassandra, warning against the threats of Communism, Nazism, and nuclear Armageddon. With his ability to think beyond mental boxes and connect far-flung dots, he clearly foretold events to which virtually everyone else was oblivious. Yet he was certainly not always right and was at times spectacularly wrong. This is the first book that explores how Churchill understood and asserted the art of power, mostly through hundreds of his own insights expressed through his speeches and writings.”
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