style="overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">I am a member of your profession,” Winston Churchill wrote to a newspaper editor in 1945. “I have never had any money except what my pen has brought me.” It was true; his dabbling in the stock market was usually disastrous and his speaking fees were lucrative but relatively rare. Churchill’s profession was that of a journalist, biographer, autobiographer and historian, and in those trades he did very well indeed.