This collection of intimate portraits of eleven famous men and women originally published by Eyre Methuen, Ltd. in 1980, is based on Rowse's own friendship with his subjects, all of whom have made significant contributions to modern literature or politics. They include Sir Winston Churchill, Lady Astor, Agatha Christie, Samuel Eliot Morison, G.M. Trevelyan, Andre Maurois, Edmund Wilson, W.H. Auden, Admiral Nimitz, T.S. Eliot, and Willa Cather.
- ISBN10 0819135836
- ISBN13 9780819135834
- Publish Date 14 December 1983
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 7 June 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University Press of America
- Format Paperback
- Pages 266
- Language English