The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions of Glory
 

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions of Glory

by William Manchester

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Reporterward
  • Rated 5 stars

This two part biography really delves into the mundane personal life of one 20th Century's most complex men.

Winston Churchill is remembered as a statesman and a politician. What is fascinating to this hicktown reporter, however, is that the only way Churchill was able to stay in politics (and feed and clothe his family) was because of his prolific writing.

Having struggled to make ends meet by putting words together it is truly heartening to read how one of history's "Great...

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scott d
  • Rated 2 stars

I really didn't get into this book. I think it because I never heard much about him because he's across the pond from the USA.

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  • Rated 5 stars
 

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