Publish Date |
September 12, 2023 |
Category |
History / Social History Biography & Autobiography / Historical |
Price |
$39.99 |
ISBN: 9781982141967
Format: Hardback
Pages: 432
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: September 12, 2023
“Gray has managed to do the virtually impossible, and that is to say something new and perceptive about Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. With her usual keen eye for the telling detail and her sympathy for her subjects, she argues for the importance of the statesmen’s relationships with their two very different but forceful mothers.”
— MARGARET MacMILLAN, New York Times bestselling author of Paris 1919 and War“Gray hopes her book will encourage people to think more about the breadth of women’s lives. With her own passion for historical detail, she has reclaimed the vibrant, extraordinary ones of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt.”
— Toronto Star“Fascinating, engaging, and thought-provoking insight into the lives and influence of two women whose impact on the course of world events has all too often been reviewed from the male gaze. This book made me develop a greater appreciation for many of the so-called ‘secondary’ characters we read about in history books.”
— ELIZA REID, internationally bestselling author of Secrets of the Sprakkar“[A] book that seeks to rehabilitate the reputations of the mothers of Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt—women of substance and strength who greatly impacted the lives and careers of their more famous and celebrated sons. . . . But Gray’s most important accomplishment is to show that Jennie Churchill and Sara Roosevelt were far more than just mothers of history-making sons.”
— New York Journal of Books“Charlotte Gray has put two truly remarkable women—Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt—in the spotlight. Brilliantly conceived and wonderfully written, their lives and times are illuminated as never before.”
— BOB RAE, diplomat and author of What’s Happened to Politics?“[A] terrific and insightful double biography.”
— Wall Street Journal“[E]ntirely original and brilliant. [Gray] weaves together the parallel but remarkably different lives of Sara Roosevelt and Jennie Churchill, as wives as well as mothers, and explores their fascinatingly dissimilar guidance of their famous sons’ futures. Fresh, original, superbly researched, intimate, compelling, perceptive, sensitive, and immensely readable, it is not to be missed.”
— RONALD COHEN, author of the three-volume Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill“This is a spectacular book, brilliantly and magnetically written. It’s a story about the passionate love of two remarkable mothers and their two remarkable sons, but it’s also transcendently about all mothers and their sons.”
— ROSALIE ABELLA, former Canadian Supreme Court justice and professor of law at Harvard Law School“A compassionate and vivid double portrait of Jennie Jerome and Sara Delano. . . . Gray strikes an expert balance between the big picture and intimate glimpses of each woman. It’s an enlightening study of two mothers’ crucial influence upon sons who would make history.”
— Publishers Weekly “In this provocative biography, Charlotte Gray bestows revisionist interest on two 'passionate mothers' whose 'powerful sons' proved themselves worthy of the maternal love and devotion showered on each.”
— Washington Independent Review of Books