Originally published in 1906, Churchill’s biography of his father was well received and the following year reissued in this single volume format.

Lord Randolph Churchill (1845-1895) was a British politician who was a precociously influential figure in the Conservative Party. He became leader of the House of Commons and chancellor of the Exchequer in 1886, at the age of 37, and seemed certain to be prime minister in due course but his own miscalculation ended his political career before the year was over; his final years were blighted by his terminal Syphilis.