Andrew Roberts on The Habits of Churchill, Classes from Napoleon, and The Holy Fireplace Inside Nice Leaders (#773)

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Andrew Roberts on The Habits of Churchill, Classes from Napoleon, and The Holy Fireplace Inside Nice Leaders (#773)

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“As quickly as you assume you perceive a interval, all it takes is one new set of papers or a brand new e book written by someone else that may make you look once more on the identical interval and utterly change your thoughts about it. And that’s slightly unnerving on the age of 61, I’ve to say.”
— Andrew Roberts

Andrew Roberts (@aroberts_andrew) has written twenty books, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages and have gained 13 literary prizes.

These embrace Salisbury: Victorian Titan, Masters and Commanders, The Storm of Warfare: A New Historical past of the Second World Warfare, Napoleon: A Life, Churchill: Strolling with Future, The Final King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III, and most just lately, Battle: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Gaza, which he co-authored with Normal David Petraeus.

Lord Roberts is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historic Society, the Bonnie and Tom McCloskey Distinguished Visiting Fellow on the Hoover Establishment at Stanford, and a visiting professor on the Division of Warfare Research at King’s School, London. He’s additionally a member of the Home of Lords.

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Table of Contents

SHOW NOTES

[00:06:14] Expelled from Cranleigh college.
[00:07:14] Why MI6 thought-about Andrew for recruitment.
[00:09:56] The trainer who made historical past thrilling to 10-year-old Andrew.
[00:13:05] Phrases Andrew avoids when writing about historical past.
[00:14:20] Are steady-nerved leaders naturally born or nurtured?
[00:16:05] The thinkers who influenced Winston Churchill and his sense of noblesse oblige.
[00:18:26] What made Napoleon Bonaparte the prime exemplar of conflict management?
[00:24:37] Classes from Winston Churchill’s autobiography, My Early Life.
[00:26:22] Napoleon’s relationship with threat.
[00:29:26] Andrew’s signed letter from Aldous Huxley.
[00:30:49] When historic figures carry a way of non-public future.
[00:33:07] The assembly Andrew needs he might’ve witnessed as a fly on the wall.
[00:34:30] When historic villains carry a way of non-public future.
[00:37:14] What Churchill and Napoleon realized from their errors.
[00:39:38] “Pricey Diary…”
[00:44:00] Sustaining inventive circulation throughout the writing course of.
[00:47:18] On working with sensible writer Stuart Proffitt (aka Professor Good).
[00:52:53] Why are some vital figures immortalized whereas others go the way in which of Ozymandias?
[00:57:59] Ideas on private legacy.
[00:59:18] Fiction favorites.
[01:02:05] Being goal in regards to the historical past of imperialism.
[01:03:31] The challenges of educating and studying historical past at present.
[01:06:40] Why “Examine historical past” is Andrew’s coat of arms motto.
[01:10:22] What Andrew, as a historical past professional, sees for the long run.
[01:14:01] Counteracting pure pessimism.
[01:15:34] What to anticipate from Andrew’s newest e book Battle (co-authored with David Petraeus).
[01:19:21] Upcoming e book tasks.
[01:20:26] Parting ideas.

MORE ANDREW ROBERTS QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“I don’t assume I’m the primary individual ever as a younger man to get drunk and climb up buildings … It led to certainly one of my spouse’s most sensible witticisms. She stated, ‘And all Andrew’s carried out since in life is to get drunk and social climb.’”
— Andrew Roberts

“After I really feel pessimism for America, it’s for issues like taking the Thomas Jefferson statue down from the New York Metropolis Corridor. It’s a type of cultural suicide. It strikes me to not admire the founders of your nation. And sure, after all he owned slaves, however he additionally wrote a structure that has survived for 1 / 4 of a millennium and he was courageous sufficient, and Washington and all of the others, courageous sufficient to face up towards essentially the most highly effective empire on this planet. These items, you deserve your statue, it appears to me. And should you go round pulling this stuff down, I feel you’re breaking a dwelling hyperlink with the previous that makes you an amazing nation.”
— Andrew Roberts

“I discover it very stress-free and calming to assume that my life isn’t simply going to be a whole waste of time. And one of many solely ways in which I can justify this idea that it’s all not only a nihilistic maelstrom is by writing books, clearly, which I hope will survive me. But additionally, noting down what I’ve carried out within the day.”
— Andrew Roberts

“As quickly as you assume you perceive a interval, all it takes is one new set of papers or a brand new e book written by someone else that may make you look once more on the identical interval and utterly change your thoughts about it. And that’s slightly unnerving on the age of 61, I’ve to say.”
— Andrew Roberts

“I’m a little bit of a pessimist anyway as a result of I’m a Tory and pessimism is a necessary a part of Toryism.”
— Andrew Roberts

PEOPLE MENTIONED

Benjamin Disraeli, the Earl of Beaconsfield
Susan Gilchrist
James Bond
Cookie Monster
Christopher Perry
Charles I
Oliver Cromwell
Elizabeth I
Mary, Queen of Scots
Robert Caro
Niall Ferguson
Napoleon Bonaparte
Winston Churchill
Julius Caesar
Alexander the Nice
Edward Gibbon
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Arthur Schopenhauer
Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Sir Francis Drake
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
Randolph Churchill
Jeanette Spencer-Churchill
Aldous Huxley
Adolf Hitler
Neville Chamberlain
George VI
Claus von Stauffenberg
David Koresh
Jim Jones
Xi Jinping
Benjamin Netanyahu
Joe Biden
Louis XVI
Samuel Johnson
Stuart Proffitt
Herodotus
Abraham Lincoln
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, third Marquess of Salisbury
Robert Goddard
William Boyd
Salman Rushdie
Robert Harris
Michel Houellebecq
Henry VIII
Denzel Washington
Sherlock Holmes
Eleanor Rigby
Ronald Hutton
Simon Roberts
Edward I
Elizabeth II
Warren Hastings
Nelson Mandela
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Thomas Extra
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford
William Wallace
George III
Thomas Jefferson
P.G. Wodehouse
David H. Petraeus
Matthew Ridgway

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