William Manchester (1922–2004)
Författare till A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
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William Manchester was born on April 1, 1922 in Attleboro, Massachusetts. After serving as a Marine in the Pacific Theater during World War II, he completed his B.A. at the University of Massachusetts and earned his master's degree in English from the University of Missouri. He was a journalist for visa mer several years before becoming the managing editor of Wesleyan University's publications office. He spent the rest of his career at the University, serving in various roles including adjunct professor of history and writer-in-residence. In addition to several novels, her wrote a number of historical and biographical works. Among them are The Death of a President, which won the Dag Hammarskjold International Literary Prize and American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964. His last major work was a three-part biography of Winston Churchill, entitled The Last Lion. He received the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award in 2000. Manchester died on June 1, 2004, at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age (1992) 3,266 exemplar
The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume I: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 (1983) 2,321 exemplar
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume III: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 (2012) — Författare — 1,073 exemplar
The Last Lion Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874-1965, Volumes I-III (2012) — Författare — 124 exemplar
Disturber of the Peace: The Life of H.L. Mencken (Commonwealth Classics in Biography) (1951) 57 exemplar
The Last Lion 7 exemplar
Adio, intuneric! 1 exemplar
My Early Life: 1874-1904 1 exemplar
Gloria y Ensueño. Una historia narrativa de los Estados Unidos. (Tomo 1. 1932-1945) (1976) 1 exemplar
Gloria y Ensueño. Una historia narrativa de los Estados Unidos. (Tomo 4. 1965-1972) (1901) 1 exemplar
Gloria y Ensueño. Una historia narrativa de los Estados Unidos. (Tomo 2. 1945-1954) (1977) 1 exemplar
Churchill 1 exemplar
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A Sense of History: The Best Writing from the Pages of American Heritage (1985) — Bidragsgivare — 463 exemplar
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 451 exemplar
Semper Fi: Stories of the United States Marines from Boot Camp to Battle (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 31 exemplar
The Greatest War Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Four Incredible War Tales (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 29 exemplar
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Reader's Digest Today's Nonfiction Best Sellers 1975 : A Bag of Marbles | The Glory and the Dream | The Bermuda… (1975) — Författare — 6 exemplar
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Allmänna fakta
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Manchester, William Raymond
- Födelsedag
- 1922-04-01
- Avled
- 2004-06-01
- Begravningsplats
- Indian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Connecticut, USA
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA
- Dödsort
- Middletown, Connecticut, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Attleboro, Massachusetts, USA
Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
Middletown, Connecticut, USA - Utbildning
- Massachusetts State College (BA | 1946)
University of Missouri (MA | 1947) - Yrken
- historian
foreign correspondent
journalist
biographer - Organisationer
- United States Marine Corps (World War II)
Baltimore Evening Sun
Wesleyan University - Priser och utmärkelser
- National Humanities Medal (2001)
Purple Heart (1945)
Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award (2000)
Abraham Lincoln Literary Award
Dag Hammarskjold International Literary Prize
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- Medlemmar
- 15,655
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- #1,452
- Betyg
- 4.1
- Recensioner
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- ISBN
- 262
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So it surprises me to admit that I enjoyed it. Even more surprising is that it's a real page-turner. Part of this is due to what a fascinating figure Douglas MacArthur was, but mostly it's due to the way that William Manchester heightens the immediacy of everything that happened in MacArthur's life.
Not to say he's overly dramatized it, or even tried to make MacArthur out to be a better person than he was. But it's clear on every page that Manchester finds his subject fascinating, and before you know it, you do too.
It's a great shame that after suffering two strokes, he was unable to finish the third part of a planned three-part biography of Winston Churchill.… (mer)