“…Abordó el género biográfico con particular viveza en obras como Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, George Bernard Shaw, William Blake y Robert Louis Stevenson. …”

“…Abordó el género biográfico con particular viveza en obras como Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, George Bernard Shaw, William Blake y Robert Louis Stevenson. …”

“…La creatividad en el teatro, el enigma del lapso entre la inspiración y la elaboración de una obra, el problema del éxito y el fracaso del actor potencialmente creativo, la estructura de la personalidad y de los conflictos y el desarrollo de los factores que conducen al éxito o a la frustración han sido estudiados en personalidades como Stanislavski y John Wilkes Booth, así como la relación del dramaturgo con sus personajes creados en los casos específicos de Eugene O'Neil y George Bernard Shaw; y las heroínas de Tennesse Williams, de la Antígona de Sófocles y la Electra de Eugene O'Neil, que contribuyen a la mejor comprensión de la situación social y psicológica que abundan en sus obras. …”

“…Weintraub was one of the preeminent biographers, one of the most distinguished military historians, and one of the most important scholars of playwright George Bernard Shaw of the last 60 years. He published biographies of American and English figures of political, cultural and military significance, including Shaw, Lawrence of Arabia, Whistler, Beardsley, Queen Victoria (which reached #1 on The Times of London bestseller list), Prince Albert, King Edward VII, Disraeli, MacArthur, Eisenhower, Marshall and FDR; he wrote histories covering aspects of the American Revolution, the Civil War, World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Korean War, and he wrote a series of books about wartime Christmases, including Washington getting home for Christmas in 1783, Sherman reaching Savannah for Christmas in 1864, the Christmas Truce of 1914, Christmas at the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, and a military escape from Korea at Christmas in 1950.…”

“…Chesterton loved to debate, often engaging in friendly public disputes with such men as George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Bertrand Russell and Clarence Darrow. …”

“…Una generosità di spirito che perfino George Bernard Shaw, amico sempre critico di Chesterton, ammise, recensendo per primo le "Impressioni irlandesi"…”

“…Mille eventi sono stati ideati e promossi lungo undici anni, e non solo in territorio nazionale, in nome di un'idea alta della storia e della cultura, concepite come formazione, dialogo, confronto e passione incessante per la ricerca, un'idea che può essere sintetizzata in una frase di George Bernard Shaw: «Se tu hai una mela e io ho una mela e ce le scambiamo, abbiamo sempre una mela per uno. …”

“…He also engaged in friendly debates with George Bernard Shaw, H G Wells, Bertrand Russell and Hilaire Belloc. …”