However the book which meant most to him was the one he wrote to vindicate his father's memory. Highly praised he had received a huge advance. Lord Randolph had died early from syphilis, a common cause of death in those days, and an extremely nasty one. A brilliant man, he had become Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the Conservatives in The House of Commons at 37, but he had fallen out with the government when he wanted to reduce spending on the navy. The early stages of syphilis made him difficult to get on with, and volatile which affected his speeches in the Commons.
War correspondent for the Morning Post in the Boer War, Churchill became a hero after he was captured and escaped.
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