Steven F. Hayward on Winston Churchill and Statesmanship

Conversations with Bill Kristol

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🗓️ 28 July 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Steven F. Hayward is a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley and author of important books on Churchill, Reagan, and many other subjects. In this Conversation, Hayward analyzes Churchill’s wartime leadership and his domestic political concerns—as well as his often neglected writings, which contain both timeless and timely political insights. Highlighting Churchill’s attachment to principles as well as his understanding of circumstances, Hayward demonstrates that Churchill remains vital to understanding statesmanship. Kristol and Hayward also compare and recommend their favorite speeches and works by and about Churchill.

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0:00.0	And the Hi, I'm Bill Crystal. Welcome to Conversations. I'm joined today by Steve Hayward,
0:20.0	visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
0:22.8	I just can't quite say that with a straight face, but it's great.
0:26.0	It's great.
0:27.0	Congratulations.
0:28.0	Well, I'm an inmate is what I usually say.
0:29.0	I'm sure Berkeley's benefiting from your presence?
0:31.0	Well, I hope so.
0:31.6	I'm sure.
0:33.0	And author of famous, many, many things worth reading, most famously, multi-volume biography of Ronald Reagan,
0:40.3	which really is a must read to understand American politics in my opinion for a long period really since you deal with the pre- Reagan situation in Reagan and
0:47.5	Reagan and two books I think on Churchill right as well as essays Churchill Leadership, a book I highly recommend.
0:54.0	Is it in print actually?
0:55.1	It is in print, yes.
0:56.1	Okay, perfect, but then they can just buy it.
0:57.5	I was going to say it. It was 20 years ago, but it's still in print.
0:59.5	No, it's an excellent book.
1:00.5	And then he did a short book, book I think also on Churchill and Reagan.
1:02.8	Yeah the publisher called it greatness Reagan Churchill in the making of
1:06.6	extraordinary leaders I didn't really like that title but trade publishers call the tune
1:10.4	on it and it grew out of my Reagan work I was startled to discover in doing
1:14.8	a word search that Reagan quoted Churchill more often than all their presidents
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