40 Ways to Look at Winston Churchill by Gretchen Rubin. A terrific introduction to the towering, complicated Winston Churchill. Rubin combines a warm, conversational writing style with exacting research. The book reads like a light, easy chat. The author’s tone is so relaxed and personable, one almost takes for granted Rubin’s quality and density of critical analysis. Churchill was described as “larger than life” even during his  own lifetime. Rubin does an excellent job in introducing the reader to the ever fascinating, vivid, charming, difficult, tumultuous Winston Churchill.