So one October evening in 2003, he asked Paul Reid, a close friend and award-winning features writer and food critic for The Palm Beach Post, to complete the book. ( MORE: First Use of ‘OMG’ Found in 1917 Letter to Winston Churchill) He wrote up until 1998, when he suffered two debilitating strokes that impaired his speech and partially paralyzed his left leg. Winner of a National Humanities Medal, author and longtime journalist Manchester (1922-2004) published historical biographies such as The Death of a President (on the assassination of JFK), A World Lit Only by Fire (a history of the Middle Ages), American Caesar (a biography of American military general Douglas MacArthur), and his first two biographies of Churchill before he started work on Defender of the Realm in 1988. Churchill begins shortly after he was elected prime minister and guides readers through the war and its aftermath, up until his death in 1965.
The third and final volume of the biography of Sir Winston S. He wrote the lion’s share of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965, after William Manchester, the author who started the book, passed away. Follow does a journalist who has never written a book before and was previously best known for his features in The Palm Beach Post end up finishing a bestselling biography series of the most commanding British statesman of modern times? Ask Paul Reid.
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