Coolidge, Olivia E

A biography of the novelist, a contemporary of Henry James, who wrote about New York society life in such noted works as The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence.

"Portraits of Cicero, Caesar, Augustus, Vergil and Horace, Nero and Seneca, Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurclius, Diacletian and Constantine all seen in their negative as well as positive aspects.".

Stating in her preface that the life of Churchill is the history of the first half of the twentieth century, the author views the great British statesman in relation to his times.