Damn, damn, damn!
Jun. 4th, 2004 11:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wombat_sochoWilliam Manchester is dead.
Author of American Caesar, the larger-than-life biography of that larger-than-life general Douglas MacArthur, Goodbye, Darkness, his semi-autobiographical history of the Marines' war in the Pacific, and a shitload of other excellent biographies and popular histories (did I mention The Arms of Krupp?) Manchester was at work on the third volume of his biography of Churchill, The Last Lion, when he was crippled by a series of strokes that left him incapable of finishing.
I feel almost as bad as I did when I heard that Robert Heinlein had died.
Author of American Caesar, the larger-than-life biography of that larger-than-life general Douglas MacArthur, Goodbye, Darkness, his semi-autobiographical history of the Marines' war in the Pacific, and a shitload of other excellent biographies and popular histories (did I mention The Arms of Krupp?) Manchester was at work on the third volume of his biography of Churchill, The Last Lion, when he was crippled by a series of strokes that left him incapable of finishing.
I feel almost as bad as I did when I heard that Robert Heinlein had died.
