Best Selling Books by William manchester

American ed. (1950) has title: Disturber of the peace. Includes bibliography.

Captures the past fifty years of the world in over three hundred photographs.

Special attention is given to Nelson because he is viewed as the new leader of the family and an aspiring statesman since his election as New York''s governor.

本书从1932年富兰克林、罗斯福总统上台前后一直到1972年的水门事件, 勾画了整整四十年间的美国历史.

In 1947, a young William Manchester--the man who would later become a celebrated biographer, historian, and novelist--was working as a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. It was there that he met fellow journalist H.L. Mencken, the influential writer and cofounder of the magazines The American Mercury and The Smart Set. While attending the University of Missouri, Manchester tackled Mencken as the subject of his Masters thesis. When the resulting biography was published on the wider market in 1951, it made a splash--establishing Manchester''s reputation as a skilled writer, biographer, and political commentator. This book tells the story of conservative anarchist H.L. Mencken''s life in compelling detail--a story that''s energetic, controversial, and surprisingly intimate. Crafted in vivid prose, William Manchester brings Mencken''s world to life. William Manchester was the most popular and highly regarded historian and biographer of his time--and this powerful book supports that reputation. Manchester''s book is written with verve, intellectual sophistication, and a prickly wit worthy of its eminent subject.... [The Life and Riotous Times of H.L. Mencken] performs a considerable service for American intellectual history. It is, besides, a first-class piece of literate entertainment. --The New Yorker

The noted biographer-historian continues his life of Winston Churchill, focusing here on the years of Churchill''s political exile and his increasingly forceful opposition to Hitler''s Germany.

The first volume in William Manchester''s masterful, magnum opus account of Winston Churchill''s life. The Last Lion: Visions of Glory follows the first fifty-eight years of Churchill''s life--the years that mold him into the man who will become one of the most influential politicians of the twentieth century. In this, the first volume, Manchester follows Churchill from his birth to 1932, when he began to warn against the re-militarization of Germany. Born of an American mother and the gifted but unstable son of a duke, his childhood was one of wretched neglect. He sought glory on the battlefields of Cuba, Sudan, India, South Africa and the trenches of France. In Parliament he was the prime force behind the creation of Iraq and Jordan, laid the groundwork for the birth of Israel, and negotiated the independence of the Irish Free State. Yet, as Chancellor of the Exchequer he plunged England into economic crisis, and his fruitless attempt to suppress Gandhi''s quest for Indian independence brought political chaos to Britain. Throughout, Churchill learned the lessons that would prepare him for the storm to come, and as the 1930''s began, he readied himself for the coming battle against Nazism--an evil the world had never before seen.

Da Idade Média à Era Moderna, mais de mil anos de história são investigados neste livro à luz dos fatos que moldaram a mentalidade do homem moderno. ''Fogo sobre a terra'' prova, mais uma vez, que a história não é uma seqüência de episódios sem relação. William Manchester escreveu uma narrativa palpitante, em que concatena o Cisma da Cristandade, a redescoberta dos valores da civilização clássica pelos humanistas, a perda do monopólio de ensino da Igreja, o abismo entre a razão e a fé, a expansão do comércio, a invenção da imprensa, a ameaça de Copérnico e a exploração das terras além da Europa, da qual a viagem de Fernão de Magalhães seria o ápice.

An outstanding American historian follows Winston Churchill through a typical day during his political exile in the 1930s and uses that single twenty-four-hour period to reveal the character of the century''s greatest Englishman in all its complexity.