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William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Visions of
Byron wrote his shortest and most eloquent poem as a testament to a titled woman who had taken leave of her husband for a nine-month romp with him: Caroline Lamb, Goddamn.
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William Manchester _ The Glory and the Dream: A
oceanography, meteorology, and upper-atmosphere physics,
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William Manchester _ The Last Lion Box Set: Winston
It was Churchill who called John Foster Dulles "the only bull who brings his own china shop with him," and who coined the progression, "dull, duller, Dulles.
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William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Visions of
The key to successful extramarital sex, therefore, was discretion. Mrs. Patrick Campbell, perhaps the most outspoken woman in polite society, said dryly: "It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom, as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses."43
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William Manchester _ American Caesar: Douglas
Some 4,887 miles to the east of him, north of the
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William Manchester _ The Life and Riotous Times of
If I knew what was true, I'd be willing to sweat and strive for it, and maybe even to die for it to the tune of bugle blasts. But so far, I have not found it,
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William Manchester _ The Glory and the Dream: A
The Jap," as MacArthur called the enemy-nearly everyone else called Japanese "Nips," short for "Dai Nippon," the"
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William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Winston Spencer
Sherwood, Franklin Roosevelt's speechwriter and biographer, wrote that although Churchill's "consumption of alcohol… continued at quite regular intervals through most of his waking hours," it did so "without visible effect on his health or mental processes. Anyone who suggested he became befuddled with drink obviously never had to become involved in an argument with him on some factual problem late at night…." Churchill's drinking habits, Sherwood wrote, were "unique" and his capacity "Olympian."18 Despite his prolonged, consistent, and prodigious consumption of alcohol, Churchill was not a drunk. But neither was he a moderate social drinker,
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William Manchester _ Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of
have another drink, and then I learn, for the hundredth time, that you can't drown your troubles, not the real ones, because if they are real they can swim.
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William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Winston Spencer
It is a source of endless wonder that these two islands lying side by side off the coast of Europe should have been the fount of so much anguish, each for the other. One spawned the mightiest empire in history, and its arrogant overlords were loathed by their oppressed neighbors across the Irish sea. The other -- small, poor, with virtually no valuable natural resources -- supported a people conspicuously lacking in political gifts and afflicted with an extraordinary incidence of alcoholism. "It is a very moist climate," Churchill once observed. Yet endowed with immense charm, romantic vision, and remarkable genius, it was the homeland of Swift, Shore, Yeats, Joyce, Millington Synge, O'Casey, O'Faolain, and Dublin's Abbey Theater.
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William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Volume 1:
And he despised pedants. A junior civil servant had tortuously re-worded a sentence to avoid ending with a preposition. The Prime Minister scrawled across the page, "This is nonsense up with which I will not put.
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William Manchester _ A World Lit Only by Fire: The
All the sources are secondary, and few are new; I have not mastered recent scholarship of the early sixteenth century.
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