Andrew Roberts (born on January 13, 1963) is a British conservative, writer of historical biographies and journalist. January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article deals with conservatism as a political philosophy. ...

Early life

Roberts attended Cranleigh School from where he was expelled for such pranks as statue painting, chapel roof climbing and rearranging the furniture in the quad [1]. He took a first in modern history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where he is also an honorary senior scholar. While there he was Chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association. He holds an honorary doctorate from Westminster College, Missouri. One of Roberts' contempories at Cambridge recalls that Roberts was nicknamed 'Enoch' and 'Verwoerd' by fellow students, although the nicknames were only used behind his back. ^[1] It has been suggested that Old Cranleighans be merged into this article or section. ... Full name Gonville and Caius College Motto Named after Edmund Gonville & John Caius Previous names Gonville Hall (1348), Gonville & Caius (1557) Established 1348, refounded 1557 Sister College(s) Brasenose College Master Sir Christopher Hum Location Trinity St Undergraduates 468 Postgraduates 291 Homepage Boatclub Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge is a... The Conservative Party (officially the Conservative and Unionist Party) is the second largest political party in the United Kingdom in terms of sitting Members of Parliament (MPs), the largest in terms of public membership, and the oldest political party in the United Kingdom. ... Westminster College is a private, liberal arts institution in Fulton, Missouri, USA. It was founded by Presbyterians in 1851 as Fulton College and assumed the present name two years later. ...

Career

He worked between 1985-87 as a corporate broker at Robert Fleming Securities Limited before becoming a freelance journalist and book reviewer. His biography of Lord Salisbury won him the Wolfson History Prize and the James Stern silver pen award for non-fiction. In 2001 he became a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of Arts. He appears as a regular commentator on British television and radio programmes and contributes to a range of UK publications including The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator. Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, KG, GCVO, PC (3 February 1830 – 22 August 1903), known as Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and as Viscount Cranborne from 1865 until 1868, was a British statesman and Prime Minister on three occasions, for a total of over 13 years. ... The Wolfson History Prize is given annually by the Wolfson Foundation. ... The Royal Society of Literature is the senior literary organisation in Britain. External link The Royal Society of Literature Categories: Literature stubs | Literature of the United Kingdom ... The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) is a British multi-disciplinary institution, based in London. ... This article concerns the British newspaper. ... Cover of the Nov 12, 2005 issue of The Spectator magazine. ...

He is also known to American audiences for his broadcasts on NBC during the funerals of Diana, Princess of Wales and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and the marriage of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles. In 2003 he presented a critically acclaimed four-part history series on BBC2 about the secrets of leadership which looked at the different leadership styles of Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King. He wrote a book on Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler's leadership techniques entitled Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership. He delivered a rebuttal to many of the assertions made by David Irving, Clive Ponting and Christopher Hitchens concerning Churchill. His A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900, a sequel to the four volume work of Winston Churchill, was published in September 2006. The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances;[2] née Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. ... Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, later Queen Elizabeth (Elizabeth Angela Marguerite; 4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002), was the Queen Consort of George VI from 1936 until his death in 1952. ... Prince Charles may refer to: Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, current heir-apparent to the British throne Any of the previous British royals named Charles, Prince of Wales The former Belgian regent, Prince Charles of Belgium This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that... Camilla Parker Bowles (born July 17 1947) was mistress, now girlfriend, of Charles, Prince of Wales. ... BBC Two (or BBC2 as it was formerly styled) was the second UK television station to be aired by the BBC. History The channel was scheduled to begin at 7:20pm on April 20, 1964 and show an evening of light entertainment, starting with the comedy show The Alberts and... Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. ... Hitler redirects here. ... JFK redirects here. ... “Martin Luther King” redirects here. ... David Irving at The National Archives, 2003 David John Cawdell Irving (born March 24, 1938) is a British writer specializing in the military history of World War II. He is the author of 30 books, including The Destruction of Dresden (1963), Hitlers War (1977), Uprising! (1981), Churchills War... Clive Ponting is a British writer and academic. ... Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949) is an Anglo-American author, journalist and literary critic. ... A contemporary cover of History of the English Speaking Peoples. ...

During the invasion of Iraq he emerged as one of the leading UK proponents of the war, arguing on BBC Newsnight that failure to take military action would be tantamount to appeasement. Newsnight is a British daily news analysis, current affairs and politics programme broadcast between 22:30 and 23:20 on weekdays on BBC Two. ...

After reading A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900, George W. Bush invited him to lunch at the White House on 28th February 2007. After spending time in the Oval Office, Roberts and his wife dined with Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, the National Security Advisor Steve Hadley, White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and other White House officials.[2] This was harshly criticized in an April 2007 article in The New Republic by Johann Hari. Hari accused Roberts of supporting massacres against civilians and British concentration camps built during the Boer War. Hari pointed out Roberts had addressed and praised the Springbok Club, a white supremacist organisation that flies the Apartheid flag. Roberts responded that he had not realised the Springbok Club was racist, [3] and his arguments did not amount to a defence of massacres and the concentration camps. George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ... Richard Bruce Dick Cheney (born January 30, 1941), is the 46th and current Vice President of the United States, serving under President George W. Bush. ... Karl Christian Rove (born December 25, 1950) is Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush. ... Stephen J. Hadley Stephen John Hadley (born February 13, 1947 in Toledo, Ohio) is the current U.S. Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (commonly referred as National Security Advisor) for President George W. Bush. ... Categories: People stubs | Directors of the Office of Management and Budget | American lawyers | 1955 births ... For other uses, see the New Republic disambiguation page. ... Johann Hari (born January 21, 1979) is a British journalist and writer. ... The Springbok Club is a neo-Imperialist organisation based in the United Kingdom, which supports a return to what it considers to be civilised rule in South Africa and the erstwhile Rhodesia (in practice, this would be white minority rule). ...

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2000. He is divorced from his first wife with whom he had two children, Henry and Cassia. He is now married to Susan Gilchrist, the senior partner of Brunswick Group, and lives in Belgravia.

Bibliography

• The Holy Fox : A Biography Of Lord Halifax, London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1991 ISBN 0-297-81133-9.
• Eminent Churchillians, London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994 ISBN 0-297-81247-5.
• The Aachen Memorandum, London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995 ISBN 0-297-81619-5.
• "Hitler's England What if Germany had invaded Britain in May 1940" pages 281-320 from Virtual History edited by Niall Ferguson, New York: Basic Books, 1997, 1999, ISBN 0-330-35132-X.
• Salisbury: Victorian Titan (1999). ISBN 0-297-81713-2.
• The House Of Windsor, Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2000, ISBN 0-520-22803-0.
• Napoleon and Wellington : The Battle Of Waterloo-- And The Great Commanders Who Fought It, New York : Simon & Schuster, 2001, ISBN 0-297-64607-9.
• Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership (2003). ISBN 0-297-84330-3.
• What Might Have Been (2004). ISBN 0-297-84877-1.
• Waterloo : June 18, 1815 : The Battle For Modern Europe, New York : HarperCollins, 2005, ISBN 0-06-008866-4.
• A History of the English Speaking Peoples since 1900 (2006), I

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Notes

1. ^ Private Eye magazine, No. 1041, 16 November 2001

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References

• Thomas, David (2003). "Churchill, Hitler and me". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved May 1, 2006.
• Hari, Johann (2007). "Bush's Imperial Historian. White Man for the Job". The New Republic. Retrieved April 14, 2007.
• Weisberg, Jacob (2007). "The Historian shielding Bush from reality" The Financial Times. Retrieved April 20, 2007