The other Churchill; and a World of Hope and Glory

At the cusp of the 19th and 20th centuries one of the most popular writers in the English speaking world was an American from St Louis named Winston Churchill. He was so popular that an up and coming English politician with the same name felt it necessary to use his middle initial, S, to distinguish himself.

In 1918 Churchill wrote a book called A Traveller in Wartime (it can be downloaded free in Google Books). The book contains an appendix called "The American Contribution," which is a very interesting examination of American and European -- particularly British -- politics and developments as WWI crawled to its close. Churchill offers a stirring defense of the emerging liberal order of its day. It is fascinating to read, to see the imaginings that would become the New Deal, and realize that we are having the many of the same discussions today, 100 years later.