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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 | 
 enlarge | Author: William Manchester
Publisher: Delta
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 42547
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 992
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 2.1
ISBN: 0385313489
Dewey Decimal Number: 941.084092
EAN: 9780385313483
ASIN: 0385313489
Publication Date: April 1, 1984
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Condition: very good condition paperback gently read clean pages rubbed edges sunned at edge crease
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Part One Of Two Parts It is hard to imagine anything new about Churchill. But in this life of the young lion, William Manchester brings us fresh encounters and anecdotes. Alive with examples of Churchill's early powers, THE LAST LION entertains and instructs. "Manchester is not only master of detail, but also of `the big picture.'...I daresay most Americans reading THE LAST LION will relish it immensely." (National Review)
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 very popular but April 7, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
yeas the most popular book on sir winston but mistakes are in it and volume three will appear after a 20 years break .
Life of Churchill April 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The finest biography of Churchill (and one of the best biographies of anyone else) ever written. Manchester is unequaled in providing a balanced, thorough and readable product. Only down side is that he died before completing the third and final book on Churchill.
VERY GOOD! September 26, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a very good analysis of Churchill, a thorough and colorfull portrait of a man I consider to be the greatest man of the 20th century. I have only two complaints, first I would have liked to have known more about his life with his wife and children. I also would have liked to have known what he thought of the Lusitania sinking. Not only does Manchester say nothing about Churchill's role in this business but the word Lusitania is not mentioned at all in nearly 2000 pages. Very strange. The letters of Churchill point out the chivalrousness and romantic nature that the public has not seen. All in all - very good and well worth a good read.
What a great writer, writing about an even better man! May 17, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
William Manchester is a tremendous writer. A man like Churchill deserved to have his biography writted by a writer as gifted as him.
I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting, not only to learn much about the great man Churchill, but also to have their mind expanded and stretched by excellent literature like this. There are not many people writing like this today, sadly enough.
This is not an easy read, in fact most people will do well to have a dictionary near by - but it is worth it. Drink deeply and you will learn so much more than you would have thought possible about the world from the late 19th century up through WWII.
Drink it up! 6 stars.
As Good as Biography Gets November 8, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This fully lives up to its reputation as perhaps the best biography ever written. Manchester does a peerless, masterful job filling in the background colors and giving a complete picture of Churchill from a young man into his early fifties. As Manchester emphasizes, this background was essentially the decline and fall of the British Empire and the aristocracy who ran it. Manchester's main point, that Churchill was a Victorian who also lived in the twentieth century, is brilliantly made. Churchill himself is presented in all his perplexing, influriating splendor: an impetuous, charming, ambitious genius who all too often jumped out of the plane without a parachute. If you wish to know why he was rejected by the British people at the polls just after his greatest triumph (and job done) this fascinating volume of his early triumphs and memorable failures is indispensible (answer: they needed his boistrous energy in war but they didn't trust him in peace
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