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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Lough, David, author.     Subjects     Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 -- Finance, Personal.     Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Lough, David, author.       by title:      No more champagne [e...         MARC Display

No more champagne [electronic resource] : Churchill and his money / David Lough. by Lough, David, author. London : Head of Zeus, 2015. Subjects Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 -- Finance, Personal.   Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century. Electronic Resource http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=50&titleID=2046822 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=744356fe-87b3-4447-b064-5025a3cefdcf&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0427-1/{744356FE-87B3-4447-B064-5025A3CEFDCF}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9781784081805 electronic bk. 1784081809 electronic bk. 9781784081812 1784081817 Description:  1 online resource Requests:  0 Summary:  The untold story of Winston Churchill's precarious finances. "Meticulously researched by a senior private banker now turned historian, No More Champagne reveals for the first time the full extent of the iconic British war leader's private struggle to maintain a way of life instilled by his upbringing and expected of his public position. Lough uses Churchill's own most private records, many never researched before, to chronicle his family's chronic shortage of money, his own extravagance and his recurring losses from gambling or trading in shares and currencies. Churchill tried to keep himself afloat by borrowing to the hilt, putting off bills and writing 'all over the place'; when all else failed, he had to ask family or friends to come to the rescue. Yet within five years he had taken advantage of his worldwide celebrity to transform his private fortunes with the same ruthlessness as he waged war, reaching 1945 with today's equivalent of £3 million in the bank. His lucrative war memoirs were still to come. Throughout the story, Lough highlights the threads of risk, energy, persuasion, and sheer willpower to survive that link Churchill's private and public lives. He shows how constant money pressures often tempted him to short-circuit the ethical standards expected of public figures in his day before usually pulling back to put duty first--except where the taxman was involved"--Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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