NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An altogether absorbing popular biography . --Time. rich in historical and social contexts. . . -- Boston Herald Adds a grand dimension . -- Chicago Tribune A vivid, thoroughly detailed biography of the Winston Churchill nobody knows.
Churchill and Manchester were clearly made for each other. . . .
Manchester] pulls together the multitudinous facets of one of the richest lives ever to be chronicled. . . --The Philadelphia Inquirer Superb .
One cannot do better than this book. . . . -- Newsweek Manchester has read further, thought harder, and told with considerable verve what is mesmerizing in Churchill\'s] drama. --Russell Baker Bedazzling. one of those books you devour line by line and word by word and finally hate to see end. . . a delight to read . . .
Praise for The Last Lion: Visions of Glory Absolutely magnificent .
From master biographer William Manchester, The Last Lion: Visions of Glory reveals the first fifty-eight years of the life of an adventurer, aristocrat, soldier, and statesman whose courageous leadership guided the destiny of his darkly troubled times--and who is remembered as one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century.
Against this backdrop, a remarkable man began to build his legacy.
Yet within a few years the Empire would hover on the brink of catastrophe. -- People When Winston Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace in 1874, Imperial Britain stood at the splendid pinnacle of her power.
The heroic Churchill is in these pages, but so is the little boy writing forlorn letters to the father who all but ignored him. . .
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An altogether absorbing popular biography
