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offers an incisive view of Winston Churchill's life, language, and career. The tone is generally broad minded and admiring, but Ms. Rubin takes care to note Churchill's faults, many of which were the obverse of his virtues. Perhaps no one with less singlemindedness of purpose could have saved Britain during World Ward II, but Churchill also often exhibited a striking unconcern for the feelings or desires of others. Rubin points out that Churchill rose to greatness because he was called upon to oppose Hitler; had the great opponent of his life been Gandhi we might remember him rather differently.