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Andrew Roberts (born on
January 13 1963) is a
British conservative and
historian.
Early life
Roberts attended
Cranleigh School from where he was expelled for such pranks as statue painting, chapel roof climbing and rearranging the furniture in the quad. He took an upper second in modern history at
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where he's also an honorary senior scholar. While there he was Chairman of the
Cambridge University Conservative Association.
Career
Roberts worked between 1985-87 as a corporate broker at Robert Fleming Securities Limited before becoming a freelance journalist and book reviewer. His biography of
Lord Salisbury won him the
Wolfson History Prize and the James Stern silver pen award for non-fiction. In 2001 he became a fellow of the
Royal Society of Literature and of the
Royal Society of Arts. He appears as a regular commentator on British television and radio programmes and contributes to a range of UK publications including
The Daily Telegraph and
The Spectator.
He is also known to American audiences for his broadcasts on
NBC during the funerals of
Diana, Princess of Wales and
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and the marriage of
Prince Charles and
Camilla Parker Bowles. In 2003 he presented a critically acclaimed four-part history series on
BBC2 about the secrets of leadership which looked at the different leadership styles of
Winston Churchill,
Adolf Hitler,
John F Kennedy and
Martin Luther King. He wrote a book on Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler's leadership techniques entitled
Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership, in which he delivered a rebuttal to many of the assertions made by
David Irving,
Clive Ponting and
Christopher Hitchens concerning Churchill. His
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900, a sequel to the
four volume work of Winston Churchill, was published in September 2006.
During the invasion of Iraq he emerged as one of the leading UK proponents of the war, arguing on
BBC Newsnight that failure to take military action would be tantamount to appeasement.
After reading
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900,
George W. Bush invited him to lunch at the White House on 28th February 2007. After spending time in the Oval Office, Roberts and his wife dined with Bush,
Dick Cheney,
Karl Rove, the National Security Advisor
Steve Hadley, White House Chief of Staff
Josh Bolten and other White House officials.
Roberts was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Literature in 2000. He is divorced from his first wife with whom he'd two children, Henry and Cassia. He is now married to Susan Gilchrist, the senior partner of
Brunswick Group, and lives in
Belgravia.
Books
- The Holy Fox : A Biography Of Lord Halifax, London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1991 ISBN 0-297-81133-9.
- Eminent Churchillians, London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994 ISBN 0-297-81247-5.
- The Aachen Memorandum, London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995 ISBN 0-297-81619-5.
- "Hitler's England What if Germany had invaded Britain in May 1940" pages 281-320 from Virtual History edited by Niall Ferguson, New York: Basic Books, 1997, 1999, ISBN 0-330-35132-X.
- Salisbury: Victorian Titan (1999). ISBN 0-297-81713-2.
- The House Of Windsor, Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2000, ISBN 0-520-22803-0.
- Napoleon and Wellington : The Battle Of Waterloo-- And The Great Commanders Who Fought It, New York : Simon & Schuster, 2001, ISBN 0-297-64607-9.
- Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership (2003). ISBN 0-297-84330-3.
- What Might Have Been (2004). ISBN 0-297-84877-1.
- Waterloo : June 18, 1815 : The Battle For Modern Europe, New York : HarperCollins, 2005, ISBN 0-06-008866-4.
- A History of the English Speaking Peoples since 1900 (2006), ISBN 0297850768
Notes and references
Thomas, David (2003). "Churchill, Hitler and me
". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved May 1, 2006.Further Information
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