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.

Surveys the history and nature of communism by relating the lives of Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, Tito and Khrushchev, and points out the traditions and future of communism.

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.