SOURCE: A review of A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: The Age of Revolution, in New England Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 2, June 1958, pp. 253-54.

In the following review, Morison offers high praise for Churchill's “style, judgment, and fairness” in A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: The Age of Revolution.

Sir Winston has done it again in [A History of the English Speaking Peoples: The Age of Revolution]! In less than 400 pages (excluding the maps) he has covered English, English Colonial, and United States history from 1688 to 1815. He is a challenge to all historians; for he has written no mere précis of facts, but a living and glowing narrative, a story, as history essentially is, or should be. And it is not superficial; on almost every page your reviewer can see that either Sir Winston or his researchers are familiar with the best works on the subject he describes...