{"id":425,"date":"2010-08-19T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=425"},"modified":"2010-08-19T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T15:56:00","slug":"book-review-churchills-empire-by-richard-toye-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"Book Review &#8211; Churchill\u2019s Empire &#8211; By Richard Toye &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/15\/books\/review\/Hari-t.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all\">Book Review &#8211; Churchill\u2019s Empire &#8211; By Richard Toye &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Winston Churchill is remembered for leading Britain through her finest hour<br \/>\u2014 but what if he also led the country through her most shameful one? What if, in<br \/>addition to rousing a nation to save the world from the Nazis, he fought for a<br \/>raw white supremacy and a concentration camp network of his own? This question<br \/>burns through Richard Toye\u2019s superb, unsettling new history, \u201cChurchill\u2019s<br \/>Empire\u201d \u2014 and is even seeping into the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>The Book Review is titled &#8220;The Two Churchills,&#8221; and makes the point that for all the things we admire Churchill for, he was not always right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Review &#8211; Churchill\u2019s Empire &#8211; By Richard Toye &#8211; NYTimes.com Winston Churchill is remembered for leading Britain through her finest hour\u2014 but what if he also led the country &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=425\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book Review &#8211; Churchill\u2019s Empire &#8211; By Richard Toye &#8211; NYTimes.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winston-churchill"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}