WILLIAM MANCHESTER IS one of the few authors that make history come alive with depth, color and energy. Cap and many others eagerly await the third and final book about the life of Winston Churchill.
According to Walter Scott's Personality Parade in PARADE, The Sunday Newspaper Magazine, of 8.February.1998:
Q: What's William Manchester -- author of books on JFK, MacArthur, Churchill, et al -- up to these days? I've been looking forward to Volume 3 of his Churchill Biography, but his publisher was unable to give me a firm date. Can you help?
A: After five years, even Manchester, 75, doesn't know when he'll finish his third volume on Churchill. Titled DEFENDER OF THE REALM, it covers the period from the fall of France in 1940 to Churchill's death in 1965 at 91. Manchester writes with a fountain pen in an office at the Olin Library at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where he has been a member of the history faculty for 42 years. For those who can't wait for him to finish, the Quarterly Journal of Military History published an excerpt last spring and plans to publish another this year. Check your public library.
Rosenblatt,Roger. Essay - A World of Lost Connections - For the mind, the scariest moment comes when it knows its wires are loose. TIME Magazine: 3.September.2001:
Manchester has given up on completion of the third volume. He has indicated that his declining health over many years has affected his ability to write. He can no longer draw upon his considerable skills and will not accept an inadequate performance.
CAP's NOTE: It is with true and profound sadness that we receive the disappointing news regarding William Manchester. Cap knows he is not alone if this feeling of loss. We can only hope the author, his agent, his research assistants, and his publisher find a way to finish Manchester's landmark epic history of the 20th Century's greatest leader. Cap has and will volunteer to be a ghost writer if it would be any help.
The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions of Glory, 1874-1932. -- the book that defines the man; many will be surprised by what Churchill accomplished in his life; the most entertaining history book Cap has ever read.
The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill, Alone, 1932-1940. -- the story continues through the most courageous period of Churchill's life, his isolation & ostracism during the appeasement years; he foretold the consequences 7 years earlier.
A World Lit Only By Fire - The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age. -- although the title may seem a bit daunting, this is a most fascinating book that defines the heritage from which many of us grew.
OTHER BOOKS BY William Manchester that Cap has not yet read, but he knows he must -- Manchester is that good.
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War.
One Brief Shining Moment: Remembering Kennedy.
The Death of a President: November 20 - November 25, 1963.
The Arms of Krupp, 1587-1968.
The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972.
Disturber of the Peace: The Life of H.L. Mencken.
A Rockefeller Family Portrait: From John D. to Nelson.
Portrait of a President: John F. Kennedy in Profile.
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964.
The City of Anger.
Shadow of the Monsoon.
The Long Gainer.
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14.March.2002
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