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My Early Life A Roving Commission

Winston S. Churchill

This is an account of a young man's quest for action, adventure and danger. Churchill's schooldays are undistinguished, but he is admitted to Sandhurst and embarks on a career as a soldier and a war correspondent, seeing action in Cuba, India and the Sudan.

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The MeatEater Podcast

It was read by Rorke Denver during his senior year of college; he described it as a book where "every line is gold", praising Churchill's writing style and adventurous life.

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I read that it's like yeah but like just that kind of sort of pedigree man nothing like it yeah like there's no yeah there's definitely like no flies on McCain you know but there's a lot like yeah it'...

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It was read by Rorke Denver during his senior year of college; he described it as a book where "every line is gold", praising Churchill's writing style and adventurous life.

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I read that it's like yeah but like just that kind of sort of pedigree man nothing like it yeah like there's no yeah there's definitely like no flies on McCain you know but there's a lot like yeah it's just like you used to hear about that or with him I mean he's like exemplary even outside of that like no one has his background it's pretty phenomenal nor his vision I mean he he predicted so many I mean he predicted he could see the things taking place and in Europe that led to World War II he he you know the iron curtain is his phrase he saw that the Soviets the Soviets would you know draw that curtain and even though that they were allies in that fight that they were gonna be the next big power he was a piece of work yeah but go back to your earlier thought like how far down that road would have you even gotten because he had like terrible money management loved uh you're highly you like to pull a cork love to pull a cork probably stepping out on the old misses quite often it's precisely what I mean I feel like in today's climate a person like that will not get to the front office or get any close to it because they'll get nuked before that but he was the man for the time.

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