Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table
About this audiobook
A friend once said of Churchill: "He is a man of simple tastes; he is quite easily satisfied with the best of everything." But dinners for Churchill were about more than good food, excellent champagnes, and Havana cigars. "Everything" included the opportunity to use the dinner table both as a stage on which to display his brilliant conversational talents, and an intimate setting in which to glean gossip and diplomatic insights and to argue for the many policies he espoused over a long life.
In this riveting, informative, and entertaining book, Stelzer draws on previously untapped material, diaries of guests, and a wide variety of other sources to tell of some of the key dinners at which Churchill presided before, during, and after World War II.
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About the author
Cita Stelzer, a freelance journalist and a research associate at the Hudson Institution, previously worked for John Lindsay, mayor of New York, and Governor Hugh Carey. She is currently a reader at Churchill College, Cambridge, and a member of the board of the Churchill Centre and trustee of Wigmore Hall.
Davina Porter has over twenty years' experience narrating books. Her special talent for a variety of dialects and accents has won the praise of critics and listeners alike. A member of Actors' Equity, Davina has appeared in many stage productions and has won several awards. Her audio work has covered a wide range of the written word, including classics, histories, biographies, romances, how-to books, and children's literature. Identified as "a narrator against whom all others should be measured" by the Los Angeles Times, she has won several awards for excellence in recording and was one of three AudioFile Golden Voices in 2002 and 2003. She has also been named one of AudioFile's 50 Best Voices of the Last Century. In 2004 Davina was the proud recipient of an Audie Award, and in 2006 her narration of A Breath of Snow and Ashes-the latest title in Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series, the entirety of which Davina has recorded-earned her a second Audie Award for Best Female Narrator of the Year.
