Why Churchill Still Matters: Andrew Roberts on Great Men in History

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  Great Men in History, Winston Churchill, and a question, where are the great figures today?

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  Historian Andrew Roberts on Uncommon Knowledge, now.

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  Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge.

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  I'm Peter Robinson.

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  A graduate of Gonville and Keys at Cambridge, Andrew Roberts has established himself as a major historian.

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  In the words of Victor Davis Hanson, I'm quoting Victor, the finest biographer writing in English, close quote.

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  Lord Roberts has published some 20 books, including biographies of Lord Salisbury, King George III, and Napoleon.

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  He may be best known for his 2018 volume, Churchill.

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  Walking with Destiny, now widely considered the finest one-volume work on The Great Man.

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  In 2022, King Charles III created Andrew Roberts, the Baron Roberts of Belgravia.

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  Lord Roberts is now a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford,

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  a particularly active member of the House of Lords, and the host of the podcast, Secrets of Statecraft.

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  Andrew, welcome to Uncommon Knowledge.

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  Thank you very much indeed, Peter.

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  It's great to be back on the show.

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  We'll come to Churchill.

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  Of course we'll come to Churchill.

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  When you're at this table, we get to Churchill.

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  But a couple of questions that occurred to me as I was pulling my notes together.

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  You have devoted your biographies to large, vivid figures, George III, Napoleon, Salisbury, Halifax,

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