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SUMMARY:Book Discussion Group | The Splendid and the Vile
DESCRIPTION:Join us on ZOOM for the Friends of the Library book discussion 
 group on Monday the 26th! April's selection is "The Splendid and the Vile"
  by Erik Larson. Copies of the book discussion selections are available to
  check out at the library while supplies last. Instructions for joining th
 e Zoom meeting will be provided when patrons check out a copy of the book 
 or by contacting the library.\nFrom Amazon.com:\n#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTS
 ELLER • The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake deli
 vers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Bl
 itz—an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprece
 dented crisis\n \n“One of [Erik Larson’s] best books yet . . . perfec
 tly timed for the moment.”—Time • “A bravura performance by one 
 of America’s greatest storytellers.”—NPR \n \nNAMED ONE OF THE TEN
  BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE EAST HAMPTON STAR AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOK
 S OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • Vogue • NPR
  • The Washington Post • The Globe &amp\; Mail • Fortune • Bloom
 berg • New York Post • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Revie
 ws • LibraryReads • PopMatters\n\nOn Winston Churchill’s first day 
 as prime minister\, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and C
 zechoslovakia had already fallen\, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two
  weeks away. For the next twelve months\, Hitler would wage a relentless b
 ombing campaign\, killing 45\,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold 
 his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britai
 n was a worthy ally—and willing to fight to the end.\n\nIn The Splendid 
 and the Vile\, Erik Larson shows\, in cinematic detail\, how Churchill tau
 ght the British people “the art of being fearless.” It is a story of p
 olitical brinkmanship\, but it’s also an intimate domestic drama\, set a
 gainst the backdrop of Churchill’s prime-ministerial country home\, Cheq
 uers\; his wartime retreat\, Ditchley\, where he and his entourage go when
  the moon is brightest and the bombing threat is highest\; and of course 1
 0 Downing Street in London. Drawing on diaries\, original archival documen
 ts\, and once-secret intelligence reports—some released only recently—
 Larson provides a new lens on London’s darkest year through the day-to-d
 ay experience of Churchill and his family: his wife\, Clementine\; their y
 oungest daughter\, Mary\, who chafes against her parents’ wartime protec
 tiveness\; their son\, Randolph\, and his beautiful\, unhappy wife\, Pamel
 a\; Pamela’s illicit lover\, a dashing American emissary\; and the advis
 ers in Churchill’s “Secret Circle\,” to whom he turns in the hardest
  moments.\n \nThe Splendid and the Vile takes readers out of today’s p
 olitical dysfunction and back to a time of true leadership\, when\, in the
  face of unrelenting horror\, Churchill’s eloquence\, courage\, and pers
 everance bound a country\, and a family\, together.
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