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    The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932

    Author William Manchester
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    Bantam Dell | Bantam
    On sale Apr 01, 1984 | 992 Pages | 9780385313483
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    Here are the first fifty-eight years of the remarkable man whose courageous vision guided the destiny of those darkly troubled times-and who looms today as one of the greatest figures of our century.
    William Manchester was a hugely successful popular historian and renowned biographer. In addition to the three volumes of The Last Lion, his books include Goodbye, Darkness, A World Lit Only by Fire, The Glory and the Dream, The Arms of Krupp, American Caesar, and The Death of a President, as well as assorted works of journalism. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal and the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award. He passed away in 2004. View titles by William Manchester
    “Absolutely magnificent . . . a delight to read . . . one of those books you devour line by line and word by word and finally hate to see end.”—Russell Baker
     
    “Bedazzling.”—Newsweek
     
    “Manchester has read further, thought harder, and told with considerable verve what is mesmerizing in [Churchill’s] drama. . . . One cannot do better than this book.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
     
    “An altogether absorbing popular biography . . . The heroic Churchill is in these pages, but so is the little boy writing forlorn letters to the father who all but ignored him.”—People
     
    “Superb . . . [Manchester] pulls together the multitudinous facets of one of the richest lives ever to be chronicled. . . . Churchill and Manchester were clearly made for each other.”—Chicago Tribune
     
    “A vivid, thoroughly detailed biography of the Winston Churchill nobody knows.”—Boston Herald
     
    “Adds a grand dimension . . . rich in historical and social contexts.”—Time

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    Here are the first fifty-eight years of the remarkable man whose courageous vision guided the destiny of those darkly troubled times-and who looms today as one of the greatest figures of our century.

    Author

    William Manchester was a hugely successful popular historian and renowned biographer. In addition to the three volumes of The Last Lion, his books include Goodbye, Darkness, A World Lit Only by Fire, The Glory and the Dream, The Arms of Krupp, American Caesar, and The Death of a President, as well as assorted works of journalism. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal and the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award. He passed away in 2004. View titles by William Manchester

    Praise

    “Absolutely magnificent . . . a delight to read . . . one of those books you devour line by line and word by word and finally hate to see end.”—Russell Baker
     
    “Bedazzling.”—Newsweek
     
    “Manchester has read further, thought harder, and told with considerable verve what is mesmerizing in [Churchill’s] drama. . . . One cannot do better than this book.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
     
    “An altogether absorbing popular biography . . . The heroic Churchill is in these pages, but so is the little boy writing forlorn letters to the father who all but ignored him.”—People
     
    “Superb . . . [Manchester] pulls together the multitudinous facets of one of the richest lives ever to be chronicled. . . . Churchill and Manchester were clearly made for each other.”—Chicago Tribune
     
    “A vivid, thoroughly detailed biography of the Winston Churchill nobody knows.”—Boston Herald
     
    “Adds a grand dimension . . . rich in historical and social contexts.”—Time

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