thedrifter
06-03-04, 08:26 AM
Former Marine William Manchester Passed Away Tuesday, 01 June.
Marine became biographer, historian.
William Manchester 1922-2004
By Pat Eaton-Robb for The Associated Press
Hartford, Conn.
William Manchester, author of popular biographies of Winston Churchill and Douglas MacArthur and the controversial chronicler of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, died Tuesday at the age of 82.
Manchester, who had resently suffered two strokes, died at his Middletown home, said Bill Holder, a spokesman at Wesleyan University, where Manchester was a professor emeritus.
Born 01 April 1922, Manchester emerged from a working-class childhood in industrial Massachusetts and battlefield experiences as a Marine Corps sergeant in World War II to write about such giants as Kennedy, Winston Chruchill, MacArthur and the Rockefellers.
The most personal of his works was an attempt to exorcise demons and recurring wartime nightmares - "Goodbye, Darkness", published in 1980. Manchester describes growing up in Attleboro, Mass., the son of a wounded WW1 Marine, and then following in his father's footsteps by enlisting at the beginning of WWII. The book relates Manchester's wartime experiences on Okinawa, where he was wounded twice, aand his visits to other Pacific battlegrounds in the 1970s.
His books are as listed:
"Portrait of a President" - 1962
"The Death of a President" - 1967
"One Brief Shining Moment" - 1983
(A trilogy of the Kennedy years)
"Arms of Krupp" - 1968
"The Glory and the Dream" - (History if the United States 1933-1973)
"American Caeser: A Biography of General Douglas MacArthur" - 1978
"The Last Lion: Visions of Glory 1874-1932" - 1983
"The Last Lion: Alone 1932-1940" - 1988
"The Last Lion, Volume III - Unfinished at his death. This last of the Churchill trilogy will be finished by Paul Reid, a feature writer from the Palm Beach Post, who was chosen last month by Manchester to assist in finishing this book.
Funeral and Memorial details are unannounced at this time.
Ellie
Rest In Peace
Marine became biographer, historian.
William Manchester 1922-2004
By Pat Eaton-Robb for The Associated Press
Hartford, Conn.
William Manchester, author of popular biographies of Winston Churchill and Douglas MacArthur and the controversial chronicler of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, died Tuesday at the age of 82.
Manchester, who had resently suffered two strokes, died at his Middletown home, said Bill Holder, a spokesman at Wesleyan University, where Manchester was a professor emeritus.
Born 01 April 1922, Manchester emerged from a working-class childhood in industrial Massachusetts and battlefield experiences as a Marine Corps sergeant in World War II to write about such giants as Kennedy, Winston Chruchill, MacArthur and the Rockefellers.
The most personal of his works was an attempt to exorcise demons and recurring wartime nightmares - "Goodbye, Darkness", published in 1980. Manchester describes growing up in Attleboro, Mass., the son of a wounded WW1 Marine, and then following in his father's footsteps by enlisting at the beginning of WWII. The book relates Manchester's wartime experiences on Okinawa, where he was wounded twice, aand his visits to other Pacific battlegrounds in the 1970s.
His books are as listed:
"Portrait of a President" - 1962
"The Death of a President" - 1967
"One Brief Shining Moment" - 1983
(A trilogy of the Kennedy years)
"Arms of Krupp" - 1968
"The Glory and the Dream" - (History if the United States 1933-1973)
"American Caeser: A Biography of General Douglas MacArthur" - 1978
"The Last Lion: Visions of Glory 1874-1932" - 1983
"The Last Lion: Alone 1932-1940" - 1988
"The Last Lion, Volume III - Unfinished at his death. This last of the Churchill trilogy will be finished by Paul Reid, a feature writer from the Palm Beach Post, who was chosen last month by Manchester to assist in finishing this book.
Funeral and Memorial details are unannounced at this time.
Ellie
Rest In Peace