As a journalist, Johnson has a wonderful instinct for vivid scenes and engrossing details.
This book does not shed much light on Johnson, beyond his like of women and bicycles, and his belief that voting Tory will "cause your wife to have bigger breasts".
London mayor Johnson...takes a look at the quintessential British leader and his massively widespread influence on global affairs...Despite the author’s drifts into hagiography and occasionally contrived prose...reading about Churchill is always a delight, and Johnson is an accomplished, accessible writer.
The book is a passionate and well argued demolition job, but if it has a weakness, it is that some of the material feels secondhand, compiled from news reports rather than the result of first-hand digging.