{"405581":{"#nid":"405581","#data":{"type":"news","title":"\u0027Ministers at War\u0027 Named Book of the Month by BBC History Magazine","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJonathan Schneer\u2019s book \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.basicbooks.com\/full-details?isbn=9780465027910\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMinisters at War: Winston Churchill and his War Cabinet\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (Basic Books, 2015), was named Book of the Month by \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/uk\/bbc-history-magazine\u0022\u003EBBC History Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E just one month after its March release in the U.K.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchneer\u2019s book was reviewed by fellow expert in the field David Stafford, the author of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Roosevelt-Churchill-Secrets-David-Stafford\/dp\/1585672491\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERoosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (Sphere, 2000), recommends the title as a vivid celebration of national unity at the supreme moment of crisis in 1940 when Britain faced the possibility of defeat as well as a study of the often fractious relations within Britain\u2019s Second World War government.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cIt\u2019s always refreshing to read a book that covers familiar terrain yet brings a different eye and perspective to bear on it. Jonathan Schneer has succeeded with considerable aplomb,\u201d said Stafford in the published review. \u201cThis highly readable book makes it clear that Churchill was surely the right and only man for the job.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchneer, a prize-winning historian, reveals in the book that Churchill depended on a team of powerful ministers to manage the war effort as he rallied a beleaguered nation. Selecting men from across the political spectrum, he assembled a War Cabinet that balanced competing interests and bolstered support for his national coalition government. The outcome of the war thus lay not only in Churchill\u2019s individual brilliance, but also in his skill as an executive and the collective ability of men who set aside their personal differences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EJonathan Schneer, professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society, teaches modern British and European history to undergraduate and graduate students. His research areas include class, colonialism and empires, labor politics, and evolutions with a regional focus on Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJonathan Schneer\u2019s book \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.basicbooks.com\/full-details?isbn=9780465027910\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMinisters at War: Winston Churchill and his War Cabinet\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (Basic Books, 2015), was named Book of the Month by \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/uk\/bbc-history-magazine\u0022\u003EBBC History Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E just one month after its March release in the U.K.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Jonathan Schneer\u2019s book Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and his War Cabinet (Basic Books, 2015), was named Book of the Month by BBC History Magazine just one month after its March release in the U.K."}],"uid":"27889","created_gmt":"2015-05-19 11:40:15","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:18:17","author":"Beth Godfrey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-05-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-05-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"405561":{"id":"405561","type":"image","title":"Ministers at War","body":null,"created":"1449254135","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:35:35","changed":"1475895129","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:09","alt":"Ministers at War","file":{"fid":"76086","name":"ministers_at_war.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ministers_at_war.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ministers_at_war.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":209591,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ministers_at_war.jpg?itok=zUnP7s42"}},"60722":{"id":"60722","type":"image","title":"Professor Jonathan Schneer","body":null,"created":"1449176281","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:58:01","changed":"1475894528","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:08","alt":"Professor Jonathan Schneer","file":{"fid":"191195","name":"ttp97339.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ttp97339_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ttp97339_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":42418,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ttp97339_0.jpg?itok=-jxXnwAX"}}},"media_ids":["405561","60722"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"101","name":"Award"},{"id":"17411","name":"BBC"},{"id":"2671","name":"best"},{"id":"1302","name":"book"},{"id":"1683","name":"history"},{"id":"2518","name":"hts"},{"id":"33721","name":"publication"},{"id":"171016","name":"Schneer"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJonathan Schneer\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6848 \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jonathan.schneer@hts.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejonathan.schneer@hts.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}