TY - BOOK AU - Clarke, Peter. TI - Mr. Churchill?s profession: the statesman as author and the book that defined the ?special relationship SN - 9781408818879 U1 - 941.084092CLA PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Bloomsbury Press KW - Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 -Literary art. Prime ministers-Great Britain --Biography. Great Britain-History-20th century N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p.318 -331) N2 - In 1953, Winston Churchill received the Nobel Prize for literature. Though he had become a professional writer before he became a politician, and would in the course of a lifetime publish a stream of books and articles, Churchill's political career has largely overshadowed his literary achievements. Tracing the writing of the magisterial work that would occupy him, on and off, for a quarter of a century-the four-volume A History of the English-Speaking Peoples-historian Peter Clarke examines the lesser known of Churchill's two intertwined careers ER -