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No more champagne : Churchill and his money /

"Meticulously researched by a senior private banker now turned historian, No More Champagne reveals for the first time the full extent of the iconic British war leader's private struggle to maintain a way of life instilled by his upbringing and expected of his public position. Lough uses C...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lough, David (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Picador, 2015.
Edition:First U.S. edition.
Subjects:
Churchill, Winston, > 1874-1965 > Finance, Personal.
Churchill, Winston, > 1874-1965 > Family.
Statesmen > Great Britain > Biography.
Prime ministers > Great Britain > Biography.
Politicians > Great Britain > Finance, Personal > Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • "Very little money on either side": the Churchills and Jeromes
  • "How I long for you to be back with sacks of gold": spendthrift parents, 1875-94
  • "We are damned poor": distant Army duty, 1895-9
  • "Fine sentiments and empty stomachs do not accord": the world's highest-paid war correspondent, 1899-1900
  • "Needlessly extravagant": bachelor, author, MP, 1900-5
  • No "rich heiress": junior minister and marriage, 1906-8
  • "The Pug is décassé": the HMS Enchantress years
  • "The clouds are blacker and blacker": the legacy of war, 1914-18
  • "It is like floating in a bath of cream": a timely train crash, 1918-21
  • "Our castle in the air": a country seat at last, 1921-2
  • "What about the 50,000 quid Cassel gave you?": out of office, 1923-4
  • "No more champagne is to be bought": chancellor under pressure, 1925-8
  • "Friends and former millionaires": making, and losing, a New World fortune, 1928-9
  • "He is writing all over the place": a strategy for survival, 1930-1
  • "Poor Marlborough has been shunted": trading futures, 1932-3
  • "The work piles up ahead": summoning more ghosts, 1934-5
  • "We can carry on for a year or two more": films, columns and debts, 1935-7
  • "I shall never forget": Bracken and partner to the rescue, 1937-8
  • "The future opens its jaws upon us": struggling with History, 1938-9
  • "All my arrangements depend on this payment": early burdens of war, 1939-41
  • "Taxed to the utmost": film turns the tide, 1942-5
  • "A most profitable purdah": minting the memoirs, 1945-6
  • "Agreeably impressed": selling the memoirs, 1946-8
  • "The unfolding of time. lie and fortune": racing to the finish, 1948-50
  • "An insatiable need for money": post-war Prime Minister, 1951-5
  • "I shall lay an egg a year": a third and final retirement, 1955-7
  • "Good business": sunset, 1958-65
  • Epilogue.