![]() (Roberts has gone on to write extensively about Churchill and his legacy, seeking to rescue the former Prime Minister from recent attempts to scrutinize his racism and imperialism.) “A History of the English-Speaking Peoples,” which drew criticism from liberals for sanitizing imperial atrocities in India and southern Africa, established Roberts as a favored chronicler of history for American conservatives. Roberts wrote the book as an homage to one of his heroes, Winston Churchill, who had written his own book on the subject bearing essentially the same title. Roberts’s book “ A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900,” with its unapologetic embrace of the legacy of Anglo-American history, had been promoted by Vice-President Dick Cheney, and captured the conservative Zeitgeist in the U.S. ![]() In 2007, the British historian Andrew Roberts was invited for a one-on-one meeting with President George W. ![]()
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