January 1, 1970

Bookseller and author Barry Singer on weighs in on Churchill’s Style.


The episode of Freakonomics Radio begins with a conversation between Stephen Dubner and Barry Singer, the proprietor of Chartwell Booksellers in New York City.

Chartwell is the world’s only Winston Churchill bookshop. (It’s also the name of Churchill’s estate in Kent.) Singer is an author, too, and he has recently published a book called Churchill Style: The Art of Being Winston Churchill. The book details the well-appointed life that Britain’s most storied Prime Minister was known for: expensive cigars, Pol Roger champagne, crested slippers, custom jumpsuits from Turnbull & Asser — black for evening wear; gray pinstripe for day.