CHURCHILL, Winston S. - CHURCHILL, Randolph S.

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Randolph Churchill's working archive for the writing of the official biography of his father, Winston S. Churchill. A vast archive illustrating the beginning of one of the largest biographical projects ever undertaken: Randolph Churchill's material relating to the researching, writing, and publishing of the official biography of his father Winston Churchill. All subsequent Churchill biographies are deeply indebted to Randolph's work.Randolph Churchill was given the task of writing the official biography by Winston Churchill and the trustees of his papers in 1960. Over the following years he assembled a team of frequently changing research assistants to help him, as had his father for similar large literary projects. Randolph's two volumes were published in 1966 and 1967 and were praised for their objectivity, but his early death at 57 (dying just three years after his father) cut short his role, whereupon the project was completed in a further six volumes by Martin Gilbert. The archive is testament to the monumental amount of work and research that went into the biography.The material relates to the first two volumes of the biography and its accompanying companion volumes. It includes the "Master Copy" and the "Working Copy", printer's copy for the British and US edition, specimen pages and galleys, annotated proofs, fragments of the author's draft, "First" and "Second" copies and duplicates, indices, extensive annotated photocopies of original papers at Chartwell and elsewhe

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