From the Book - First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Note to the reader regarding monetary conversion
1895: New York and Bourke Cockran, Cuba, whizzing bullets, and Jennie and her network. Wherein Churchill earns a medal and meets a lifetime mentor
1898-1899: India, Sudan, and South Africa. Wherein Churchill goes to war and writes books
1900-1901: First American lecture tour, part 1: planning, then off to America. Wherein America greets Churchill and the business of lecturing is learned the hard way
1900-1901: First lecture tour, part 2: into the Hinterlands, the other Winston Churchill, New York, and home. Wherein Churchill impresses America with his wit and Britain’s Winston Churchill meets America's Winston Churchill
Building the American network, link by link. Wherein Churchill meets and woos the "influencers" he needs for his network
1929: Westward ho, nibbling some grass, the troupe goes to Hollywood. Wherein Churchill experiences the vastness of America from sea to shining sea
1929: Winston in Tinseltown, with Hearst at his castle at San Simeon. Wherein Churchill enjoys a winery, a forest, the Hollywood scene, and a media baron
1929: Eastward ho to Chicago, New York, a lesson from Wall Street, and home. Wherein Churchill visits a slaughterhouse, watches a boxing match, and suffers the loss of his speculative winnings
1931-1932: On the road again, death threats, hunting lecture fees, and policy influence. Wherein Churchill lectures in cities large and small, meeting Americans and ignores death threats
1931-1932: New York and the World Economic crises, Washington to woo Congress, more cities in which to meet more Americans. Wherein Churchill addresses New York's power elite and adds to his network links, walks the corridors of power in Washington, and negotiates permission to work while vacationing
1931-1932: Chickamauga, Boston, a radio broadcast to Americans, and home. Wherein Churchill rests on a plantation, seeks out America's young, witnesses the nation's manufacturing might, and drives a new Daimler into the wilderness
1932-1941: The wandering lecturer returns to a wilderness, keeps his network intact, and kisses hands. Wherein Churchill backs VIII and loses when it comes up VI, scribbles furiously and moves from the wilderness to No. 10
1932-1941: FDR, Luce, and Churchill's network take on the isolationists. Wherein Time's Man of the Year and his network, with Roosevelt and Luce, battle the isolationists.
