The Man Within examines how Winston Churchill, considered by many the greatest man of the twentieth century, was despite it all, of flesh and blood. Like his numerous, diverse, and often astonishing achievements, the deeper parts of his being, the kaleidoscopic mix of personalities that made up the man, are not readily captured in words, however well chosen. With her collection of photographs and quotations Carlson presents not only the gifted Churchill of history, but the man within — his joyousness and sorrows, his pugnaciousness and tenderness, his moral certainties and doubts, his vulnerabilities and immutable strengths.