Brendan Bracken, one of Winston Churchill’s closest friends, was the son of a prominent Irish nationalist. He ran away from school as a child and reinvented himself as an Australian schoolteacher. Brendan served as Britain’s Minister of Propaganda during the Second World War and went on to found what would one day become The Financial Times.
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