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The first Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722) was a soldier of such genius that a lavish palace, Blenheim, was created to honor his triumphs. Succeeding years of Churchills sometimes achieved differentiation but also included profligates and womanizers, and were saddled with the ruinous maintenance of Blenheim. The family fortunes were revived in the 19th century by the huge dowries of New York culture beauties Jennie Jerome (Winston's mom) and Consuelo Vanderbilt (wife to Winston's cousin). Mary S. Lovell brilliantly recounts the triumphant politics and military promotions, the engineering of great homes, the home tragedies, and the happy marriage of Winston to Clementine Hosier, establish against the devastating unions of the majority of his family, which finished in venereal disease, papal annulment, specialized medical major depression, and adultery. The Churchills were an extraordinary family: ambitious, impecunious, impulsive, courageous, and arrogant. Winston - recently voted "The Greatest Briton" - dominates all of them. His failures and triumphs are discovered in the framework of an poignant and sometimes tragic private life.
