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Great stuff, Mr. Scaramucci. Just found this after listening to your podcasts with Katty Kay, Big Al Campbell & co all through this year. Didn't even know you had your own channel until now. I'll catch up with the old episodes and read some of the books mentioned, for sure.
I don’t agree with you or your guests all the time but I really enjoy your podcast and the way you present it! Really like to hear you talk with professor Richard Wolff on the future of the global economy and China, the US and the EU.
Fascinating interview. Thanks. What I found really frightening was his last words on Hitler's affect on the German people and what we are experiencing today in the USA!
always a great pleasure listening to two well read, articulate souls...discussing a vast personality; so engrossed in living, creating, expressing, commanding, exploiting, challenging life and death...with bravery and vigour...... of course these days i can't help but compare such a powerful, literate leader, W.C. who valued the concept of democracy with its difficulties, and thrived within that structure, to DJT who maybe has read one book, and i don't believe even understands democracy. i chuckle.... and weep!
I did a book report on Winston Churchill in fifth grade. I am seventy now. I still love to read history and philosophy. I picked up philosophy in high school. I like to listen to well read people.
An excellent interview Anthony. I was born during WW II and remember Churchill vividly. I recall him remarking during an interview in the 1950's, how relieved he felt when he became Prime Minister. This at a time when Hitler's army was preparing to invade England! The parallel to Zelensky is so striking. I need ammunition not a ride. They will be talking about these men a thousand years from now.
The migrant’s son does it again, well done Mooch! Those Italian roots go deep and keep you level headed. I was bought up the same way as a Greek Australian
Great conversation as always mooch. BUT, but....At the 7:25 min mark a little correction. When Mr Reynolds mentioned how Churchills wife got to look after the aid program for "Russian" ( i.e. Soviet) hospitals and he states "...because the Russians were doing the bulk of the fighting.." again the means "Soviets". this is a common mistake, I do not want to single him out, but it's a real bugbear with me (I've lived in Ukraine a decade - wife's Ukrainian - and been displaced twice due to Russia) so when it pops up I have to correct the record. Out of the 27 million Soviets that died 9 million were Ukrainian and 5 ,million Belarusian + a bunch of Armenians and other republics, less than half of those actually doing the fighting were "Russians" (even then Russified Siberians like the Buryats here now). All of Ukraine and Belarus were occupied, but around 10-12% of the Russian SFSR only. Look I get that the USSR was a Russian dominated Empire, so yea it was all "Russia" and was used inter-changeable during the cold war (Soviet Union = Russia [Empire]), but when it comes to the nationalities it's important to make the distinction between "Soviets" - inclusive of all the co-opted nationalities vs "Russians".
Had no idea you had this level of knowledge of Churchill and pre-wartime British politics 😊 Your mom is the wisest person on the planet without any doubt too mate ❤
Aww man! I’m already reading several fantastic books from your Open Book and in fact am partway through The Light of Battle without having finished listening to your interview with author Michael Paradis. I’ll definitely be purchasing Mirrors of Greatness today. I’m a new sub here and must wait before checking the treasure chest of your earlier Open Book videos😉😁 I’m not well read with Churchill although he’s of great interest to me so I appreciate the varying perspectives of this complex man who played such a fundamental role in shaping our world of today. By the way, I’m finishing listening to this interview and will go back to finish Michael Paradis. Thank you!💙
Anthony you are a breath of fresh air. Why you dont have a million subrcribers is criminal!. I know now why I can relate to you, your mother spilled the beans, you have been infected with the motorcycle bug. Your uncle rode and his fearlessness infected your psyche. Anyone who rides is fearless and to ride in NYC is hero stuff in my book. Keep on truckin and telling the truth! That is in short supply and this country needs folks like yourself.
didn't know! I always liked Scaramucci on the Cnbc money show, and of course during this recent period, and i too have been a rider until later years more recently after bike broke finally and i didn't repair (yet, in 12 years)
What a captivating interview and loved every minute including the end with mom!!! In the summers of my college years I attended Laval University in Quebec City for French and I kind of told you how I learned much about Ike because of de Gaulle and French studies. Well as a student in Quebec walking into this Hotel called the Chateau Frontenac which is a very historical place. I remember going into this entrance hall seeing this huge picture of the the Conferences of Quebec and front and center in this pic was Roosevelt seated with all the democrat allies. To the right of Roosevelt was Churchill turned completely to Roosevelt looking at him with Roosevelt turned completely looking to his other side looking at the Prime Minister of Canada. I remember thinking that Roosevelt was really the commander of all those men in that pic like larger than life figure and most of them standing!! Well Anthony cannot thank you enough, appreciate this podcast so much!
I like a man who's honest, who has integrity, who doesn't denigrate others and if they're wealthy and has all those other qualities that I just mentioned, that's a good leader that's a man who's tempered.
Churchill was undoubtedly a giant figure of the 20th century, and it is fair to describe him as a multi-dimensional genius. I would be interested to know if this book covers one of the reasons Churchill was so successful as Britain's wartime leader; a reason that remained a secret until after he died. It could be said that there was another genius behind Churchill's genius - namely, Alan Turing. However, although Churchill could not publicly credit and reward Turing, he failed to protect him from prosecution and chemical castration after WWII. Churchill and Turing were two of the select group of people who knew the 'Ultra' secret - that Germany's Enigma coding machines were not secure. They also knew how British, American and Soviet security agencies had recovered many of these leaky machines in 1945. However the Soviets did not not know the 'Ultra' secret. In the years following WWII, Enigma machines were being merrily used by various ill-informed nations around the world, and Britain and America were profiting from the resulting intelligence harvest. Turing must have been top of the list of potential threats to the 'Ultra' secret at the time he was found dead. What Churchill knew about these matters remains a mystery.
Thank you for your Book Interviews. I have watched all the Churchill movies and documentaries, starting during the COVID lock down. Nice to see recent scholorly research. Full disclosure, haven't read the big post WW2 tomes.
Anthony,so many people have been writing that you should get serious in old in bringing a New Republican Party.Sometime the new party will come up. Churchill,was a giant of the 20th Century.He wasn’t perfect,and Churchill would be the first person too tell you that.But Churchill was a learner,and that made him in many ways. So much he learned from people.A man who could be so many things,but had the WISDOM of taking the leadership and doing what was needed.
Speaking of history, I just finished a book set in the 1950's and I came across a fictional character based on a real life character- Senator Margaret Chase Smith (moderate Rep) who delivered the 'Declaration of Conscience' Maybe look her up. You may find some things relatable. I don't live in the US but have been following the craziness.
Excellent interview however as much as I respect Churchill as a war time leader, and being British I doubt we would have been victorious in the war without him at the helm, but there needed to be a bit more of a rounded discussion about him than we got here, things that especially most Americans will never have heard about like his failures the Admiralty during the First World War, namely Gallipoli, which led to him not being especially liked in his own party, and why he was rejected by the British people after the war in favour of Clement Atlee's Labour government. It would have been nice to have a bit more of a rounded discussion of the man and not just a love in.
Thanks for the breakdown! Just a quick off-topic question: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?
British historians educated at Oxbridge are just heads above most others! Having lived in England, I just saw how superior many of their Universities are.
Can anyone justify his decision to divert food from Bengal to the WW effort? A few million bengalies died. For the British effort in the war. Without anyone asking them
As a youth, Gandhi wore Western garb while trying to fit in and earn a living in South Africa. But soon, he realized that it was futile, as his white, racist masters treated him no differently. On deciding to pry the jewel out of the crown by kicking the British out of India, he chose to identify (very successfully) with the minimal, hand-woven clothing worn by the majority of Indians at the time - a simple loin cloth and shawl, as that was all the impoverished Indians could afford, thanks to the 300 odd years of loot and plunder by mighty Britiainia, you know, that once-upon-a-time great superpower that ruled the waves. Let us not forget that Churchill was responsible for the starvation deaths of at least, 3 million Indians during the Bengal Famine he Prime Ministered. According to Indian politician Shashi Tharoor, “Churchill has the blood of millions on his hands whom the British prefer to forget.” “Churchill deliberately ordered the diversion of food from starving Indian civilians to well-supplied British soldiers and even to top up European stockpiles, meant for yet-to-be-liberated Greeks and Yugoslavs,” In Madhusree Mukerjee's book Churchill’s Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II, Churchill is quoted as blaming the famine on Indians “breeding like rabbits” and asking how, if the shortages were so bad, Mahatma Gandhi was still alive.
to se David Reyolds true talent. This is his take on the long shadow cast bthe first world war and gives an understanding of situation in Europe. ruclips.net/video/iPYxS5h4x34/видео.html
As an Indian, Churchill was Adolf Hitler of India. His racial,bigoted thoughts would put Nazis to Shame. His policy in 1942 caused Great Bengal Famine resulting in 4 Million Indians death. Read Inglorious Empire by Shasi Tharoor in British Atrocities in India.
These "historians' can try to white-wash (pun intended) Churchill's legacy all they want, but eventually, just like Columbus, the racist and genocidal truth will be exposed.
@aanakrukavi indian nationals tend to have a certain fondness for Hitler, not surprised you're yet another one. My point in bringing up ww2 was that the famine happened due to the fog of war and the deprivations of war, not due to some imagined cruelty. If you stopped trying to be a victim you might do better in life. Churchill was a hero not a tyrant, if you want examples of tyrants look towards the modern history of India, especially in its actions towards Pakistan
This is a sad representation of the facts. Chamberlin gets no credit for spending 6 years building the strategic defense that won the Battle of Britian. He led the team that made all the correct decisions about where the war was going and what was required to win. Build the Spitfire, Build the Hurricane, train the pilots, build the airfields, build the radar, build the command and control. Deemphasize bombers All of that was in place when Churchill took over. Churchill had actually disagreed with Chamberlin on the allocation of resources but Chamberlin got it correct. When Chamberlin went to Munich England had just started building Spitfires. Germany had over 1000 bombers and fighters. He knew he could not win at that point and was buying time. This is why Churchill kept him on the team. He knew what the project and needed to keep it going until he died.
If you enjoy the work we do at "Open Book", please help us reach 85K subscribers before the end of 2024 by subscribing above. Thank you for your support. - Anthony
Great stuff, Mr. Scaramucci. Just found this after listening to your podcasts with Katty Kay, Big Al Campbell & co all through this year. Didn't even know you had your own channel until now. I'll catch up with the old episodes and read some of the books mentioned, for sure.
I don’t agree with you or your guests all the time but I really enjoy your podcast and the way you present it!
Really like to hear you talk with professor Richard Wolff on the future of the global economy and China, the US and the EU.
Anthony you are awesome. Run for office. We need you!!
Fascinating interview. Thanks. What I found really frightening was his last words on Hitler's affect on the German people and what we are experiencing today in the USA!
always a great pleasure listening to two well read, articulate souls...discussing a vast personality; so engrossed in living, creating, expressing, commanding, exploiting, challenging life and death...with bravery and vigour...... of course these days i can't help but compare such a powerful, literate leader, W.C. who valued the concept of democracy with its difficulties, and thrived within that structure, to DJT who maybe has read one book, and i don't believe even understands democracy. i chuckle.... and weep!
I did a book report on Winston Churchill in fifth grade. I am seventy now. I still love to read history and philosophy. I picked up philosophy in high school. I like to listen to well read people.
Another great Interview! So love the variety and the intellectual level of your show. Thank you Mr. Scaramuchi and Mr. Reynolds
Thanks for the effort in posting these Anthony. It give those of us who aren't as "well read" as you, a chance to catch up a little.
Agreed .... terrific interview and very interesting topic.
An excellent interview Anthony. I was born during WW II and remember Churchill vividly. I recall him remarking during an interview in the 1950's, how relieved he felt when he became Prime Minister. This at a time when Hitler's army was preparing to invade England! The parallel to Zelensky is so striking. I need ammunition not a ride. They will be talking about these men a thousand years from now.
excellent interview, excellent questions! thank you for posting this
Thank you for watching.
The difference between leading and having a following - Good distinction.
I'd like to see more guests like this. I know Scarramuci is a political figure in the pro-democracy coalition , but stuff like this is great.
Noted! Thank you for your feedback.
The migrant’s son does it again, well done Mooch! Those Italian roots go deep and keep you level headed. I was bought up the same way as a Greek Australian
Mr. Scaramoochi you're a beautiful soul. Thank you for doing these podcast. I really enjoy them and I always learn so much
A very interesting conversation. Thankyou guys.
Great conversation as always mooch. BUT, but....At the 7:25 min mark a little correction. When Mr Reynolds mentioned how Churchills wife got to look after the aid program for "Russian" ( i.e. Soviet) hospitals and he states "...because the Russians were doing the bulk of the fighting.." again the means "Soviets". this is a common mistake, I do not want to single him out, but it's a real bugbear with me (I've lived in Ukraine a decade - wife's Ukrainian - and been displaced twice due to Russia) so when it pops up I have to correct the record. Out of the 27 million Soviets that died 9 million were Ukrainian and 5 ,million Belarusian + a bunch of Armenians and other republics, less than half of those actually doing the fighting were "Russians" (even then Russified Siberians like the Buryats here now). All of Ukraine and Belarus were occupied, but around 10-12% of the Russian SFSR only. Look I get that the USSR was a Russian dominated Empire, so yea it was all "Russia" and was used inter-changeable during the cold war (Soviet Union = Russia [Empire]), but when it comes to the nationalities it's important to make the distinction between "Soviets" - inclusive of all the co-opted nationalities vs "Russians".
Thank you.
Great interview Anthony thanks for this
The pleasure is all mine. Glad you enjoyed it.
Had no idea you had this level of knowledge of Churchill and pre-wartime British politics 😊 Your mom is the wisest person on the planet without any doubt too mate ❤
@@Garage-uj7pv Many of us yanks over our lifetimes (now at midlife) have had increasing interest in British history, particularly around those periods
Aww man! I’m already reading several fantastic books from your Open Book and in fact am partway through The Light of Battle without having finished listening to your interview with author Michael Paradis. I’ll definitely be purchasing Mirrors of Greatness today. I’m a new sub here and must wait before checking the treasure chest of your earlier Open Book videos😉😁 I’m not well read with Churchill although he’s of great interest to me so I appreciate the varying perspectives of this complex man who played such a fundamental role in shaping our world of today. By the way, I’m finishing listening to this interview and will go back to finish Michael Paradis. Thank you!💙
Love that. Thank you for reading and engaging with these great books.
Very interesting and educational: loved the sincere and informative extra little conversation with your Mom...😊
Anthony you are a breath of fresh air. Why you dont have a million subrcribers is criminal!. I know now why I can relate to you, your mother spilled the beans, you have been infected with the motorcycle bug. Your uncle rode and his fearlessness infected your psyche. Anyone who rides is fearless and to ride in NYC is hero stuff in my book. Keep on truckin and telling the truth! That is in short supply and this country needs folks like yourself.
didn't know! I always liked Scaramucci on the Cnbc money show, and of course during this recent period, and i too have been a rider until later years more recently after bike broke finally and i didn't repair (yet, in 12 years)
Your mom is incredible! Nice way to wrap up your Winston discussion with Prof. Reynolds.
Just purchase Mr Reynolds book's for my next trip. Thanks again Mooch.
What a captivating interview and loved every minute including the end with mom!!!
In the summers of my college years I attended Laval University in Quebec City for French and I kind of told you how I learned much about Ike because of de Gaulle and French studies. Well as a student in Quebec walking into this Hotel called the Chateau Frontenac which is a very historical place. I remember going into this entrance hall seeing this huge picture of the the Conferences of Quebec and front and center in this pic was Roosevelt seated with all the democrat allies. To the right of Roosevelt was Churchill turned completely to Roosevelt looking at him with Roosevelt turned completely looking to his other side looking at the Prime Minister of Canada. I remember thinking that Roosevelt was really the commander of all those men in that pic like larger than life figure and most of them standing!!
Well Anthony cannot thank you enough, appreciate this podcast so much!
very interesting! Btw, dunno how tall Churchill was, but FDR was quite tall, and when young was incredibly strapping/well-built.
Good brief survey of the "Giants" of World War II.
Wonderful conversation! Love listening of stories of history and the people that shaped it.
I like a man who's honest, who has integrity, who doesn't denigrate others and if they're wealthy and has all those other qualities that I just mentioned, that's a good leader that's a man who's tempered.
Churchill was undoubtedly a giant figure of the 20th century, and it is fair to describe him as a multi-dimensional genius. I would be interested to know if this book covers one of the reasons Churchill was so successful as Britain's wartime leader; a reason that remained a secret until after he died. It could be said that there was another genius behind Churchill's genius - namely, Alan Turing. However, although Churchill could not publicly credit and reward Turing, he failed to protect him from prosecution and chemical castration after WWII. Churchill and Turing were two of the select group of people who knew the 'Ultra' secret - that Germany's Enigma coding machines were not secure. They also knew how British, American and Soviet security agencies had recovered many of these leaky machines in 1945. However the Soviets did not not know the 'Ultra' secret. In the years following WWII, Enigma machines were being merrily used by various ill-informed nations around the world, and Britain and America were profiting from the resulting intelligence harvest.
Turing must have been top of the list of potential threats to the 'Ultra' secret at the time he was found dead. What Churchill knew about these matters remains a mystery.
Always great discussion with Anthony….
Thank you for your Book Interviews. I have watched all the Churchill movies and documentaries, starting during the COVID lock down. Nice to see recent scholorly research. Full disclosure, haven't read the big post WW2 tomes.
Marvelous interview!
Another wonderful interview. Thanks Anthony. Visiting my local bookshop tomorrow to purchase a copy x
Very interesting and informative . Thanks guys 👌
Excellent ❤💯 thank you !!
Love love love your mom 👩 interview.
Fascinating!
I read most of the biographies and also the history of the English speaking peoples but the experience that really spoke to me was visiting Chartwell.
Wow, that was good. Mooch is a great interviewer. Just bought the book too.
Loved this❤🎉
I was surprised to learn that Stalin was in the seminary. That's like a wolf going to the hen house, to learn to lay eggs. Thank you gentlemen.
You should do more of this
Anthony,so many people have been writing that you should get serious in old in bringing a New Republican Party.Sometime the new party will come up.
Churchill,was a giant of the 20th Century.He wasn’t perfect,and Churchill would be the first person too tell you that.But Churchill was a learner,and that made him in many ways.
So much he learned from people.A man who could be so many things,but had the WISDOM of taking the leadership and doing what was needed.
Trinity College my late father attended. Before he left to America.
Speaking of history, I just finished a book set in the 1950's and I came across a fictional character based on a real life character- Senator Margaret Chase Smith (moderate Rep) who delivered the 'Declaration of Conscience'
Maybe look her up. You may find some things relatable.
I don't live in the US but have been following the craziness.
Excellent interview however as much as I respect Churchill as a war time leader, and being British I doubt we would have been victorious in the war without him at the helm, but there needed to be a bit more of a rounded discussion about him than we got here, things that especially most Americans will never have heard about like his failures the Admiralty during the First World War, namely Gallipoli, which led to him not being especially liked in his own party, and why he was rejected by the British people after the war in favour of Clement Atlee's Labour government. It would have been nice to have a bit more of a rounded discussion of the man and not just a love in.
He was a man of the people. That mobilization in the final hour was spurned on by the last minute meeting with his people. “He learned from others…”
A Churchill fan here.
Read the War Diaries of Alan Brooke. It's a real eye-opener.
Have you ever noticed the physical similarities between the young Churchill and the young Boris Johnson.? They also share somewhat similar voices.
Does he talk about Churchill’s actions in Ireland at any point? If so can someone put a time stamp pls
Churchill was responsible for thousands of Indians starving to death. Ppl don’t like to discuss the negative things he did.
No we don’t, sorry
@@madameclark3453 - 1.5 Billion brown-skin people do!
Thanks for the breakdown! Just a quick off-topic question: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?
love ya Anthony but why all the English accent guests? non prejudice, just would like to listen to American sometimes while watching you
British historians educated at Oxbridge are just heads above most others! Having lived in England, I just saw how superior many of their Universities are.
We’ll, I just have to thank you once again….
Our Freedoms must be ruthlessly protected by a leader like Churchill. I think Joe Biden missed the mark.
Can anyone justify his decision to divert food from Bengal to the WW effort?
A few million bengalies died. For the British effort in the war. Without anyone asking them
As a youth, Gandhi wore Western garb while trying to fit in and earn a living in South Africa. But soon, he realized that it was futile, as his white, racist masters treated him no differently.
On deciding to pry the jewel out of the crown by kicking the British out of India, he chose to identify (very successfully) with the minimal, hand-woven clothing worn by the majority of Indians at the time - a simple loin cloth and shawl, as that was all the impoverished Indians could afford, thanks to the 300 odd years of loot and plunder by mighty Britiainia, you know, that once-upon-a-time great superpower that ruled the waves.
Let us not forget that Churchill was responsible for the starvation deaths of at least, 3 million Indians during the Bengal Famine he Prime Ministered.
According to Indian politician Shashi Tharoor, “Churchill has the blood of millions on his hands whom the British prefer to forget.”
“Churchill deliberately ordered the diversion of food from starving Indian civilians to well-supplied British soldiers and even to top up European stockpiles, meant for yet-to-be-liberated Greeks and Yugoslavs,”
In Madhusree Mukerjee's book Churchill’s Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II, Churchill is quoted as blaming the famine on Indians “breeding like rabbits” and asking how, if the shortages were so bad, Mahatma Gandhi was still alive.
to se David Reyolds true talent. This is his take on the long shadow cast bthe first world war and gives an understanding of situation in Europe. ruclips.net/video/iPYxS5h4x34/видео.html
As an Indian, Churchill was Adolf Hitler of India.
His racial,bigoted thoughts would put Nazis to Shame.
His policy in 1942 caused Great Bengal Famine resulting in 4 Million Indians death.
Read Inglorious Empire by Shasi Tharoor in British Atrocities in India.
These "historians' can try to white-wash (pun intended) Churchill's legacy all they want, but eventually, just like Columbus, the racist and genocidal truth will be exposed.
False smears. Worth remembering this also happened during ww2
@BrowithStoryCool So what. A tyrant is tyrant no matter which era he is in.
@aanakrukavi indian nationals tend to have a certain fondness for Hitler, not surprised you're yet another one.
My point in bringing up ww2 was that the famine happened due to the fog of war and the deprivations of war, not due to some imagined cruelty. If you stopped trying to be a victim you might do better in life. Churchill was a hero not a tyrant, if you want examples of tyrants look towards the modern history of India, especially in its actions towards Pakistan
Is engineering famine of Bengal that killed more people than Hitler killed in holocaust covered in the book?
This is a sad representation of the facts. Chamberlin gets no credit for spending 6 years building the strategic defense that won the Battle of Britian. He led the team that made all the correct decisions about where the war was going and what was required to win. Build the Spitfire, Build the Hurricane, train the pilots, build the airfields, build the radar, build the command and control. Deemphasize bombers All of that was in place when Churchill took over. Churchill had actually disagreed with Chamberlin on the allocation of resources but Chamberlin got it correct. When Chamberlin went to Munich England had just started building Spitfires. Germany had over 1000 bombers and fighters. He knew he could not win at that point and was buying time. This is why Churchill kept him on the team. He knew what the project and needed to keep it going until he died.
He was a terrible military strategist…
Do you agree with Churchill’s belief in white supremacy? Just wondering. This hagiography is boring.