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Hillsdale Dialogues

Churchill’s My Early Life, Part Nine

Hillsdale Dialogues

Hillsdale College

News, Education, Courses, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Larry P. Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, joins Hugh Hewitt on the Hillsdale Dialogues for his series on "Churchill the Writer." On this episode, Dr. Arnn and Hugh continue their discussion of My Early Life, which covers Winston Churchill’s life from 1874-1904.

Release date: 11 July 2025 

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0:00.0

Every week, Hillsdale College President Larry Arne joins Hugh Hewitt to discuss great books,

0:11.1

great men, and great ideas. This is Hillsdale Dialogues, part of the Hillsdale College

0:18.1

Podcast Network. More episodes at podcast.com.hillsdale.edu or wherever you find your audio.

0:31.8

Morning, glory, evening, grace, America.

0:33.8

I'm Hugh Hewitt.

0:34.5

Welcome back.

0:35.1

The Hillsdale Dialogue is underway.

0:36.5

The last radio hour of the week. Dr. Larry Arne is my guest. Welcome back. The Hillsdale Dialogue is underway the last radio hour of the week.

0:38.4

Dr. Larry Arne is my guest. He's president of Hillsdale College. And he is the equal of any Churchill

0:43.8

authority on the planet. And I think he just, after we broke off, and I stayed in London a couple of days,

0:50.1

I went out to Bletchley Park. I believe Dr. Arn went to the war rooms with some people,

0:55.2

but I also went into a place called Hatchards, which I'd never been to before, Dr. Arn,

1:00.0

magnificent bookstore pretty close to, I don't know where it is. My wonderful wife found

1:06.4

it, and I could have been in there all day. They had an entire section on Churchill that was, I mean,

1:12.3

it was overflowing with things I wanted to buy and read. Have you been in there? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

1:18.3

And it's got a rival in New York called the Strand Bookshop, but it's one of the best. It's really

1:23.3

great. Well, I had my Father's Day present picked out from me and delivered, which is Churchill

1:29.1

in Punch. I don't know if you've ever seen this, but every illustration of Churchill that

1:33.4

ever appeared in Punch is collected in one book. It's a very big book. There were a lot of cartoons

1:39.1

about Churchill. Yeah, and see, they're good to look at it, too, because there's history in there, because the early punch cartoons about Churchill show him very skinny.

1:50.2

And he was a slight little thing, you know, and he really didn't get fat until he got to be 50.

1:54.9

And then he became the guy we know.

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