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b'Winston Churchill remains one of the most revered figures of the twentieth century, his name a byword for courageous leadership. But the Churchill we know today is a mixture of history and myth, authored by the man himself. Today\\u2019s guest, David Reynolds, author of \\u201cMirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him,\\u201d re-evaluates Churchill\\u2019s life by viewing it through the eyes of his allies and adversaries, even his own family, revealing Churchill\\u2019s lifelong struggle to overcome his political failures and his evolving grasp of what \\u201cgreatness\\u201d truly entailed.

Through his dealings with Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain, we follow Churchill\\u2019s triumphant campaign against Nazi Germany. But we also see a Churchill whose misjudgments of allies and rivals like Roosevelt, Stalin, Gandhi, and Clement Attlee blinded him to the British Empire\\u2019s waning dominance on the world stage and to the rising popularity of a postimperial, socialist vision of Great Britain at home.'