William Manchester

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Disturber of the Peace, Second Edition

Disturber of the Peace, Second Edition

This fine biography of H. L. Mencken tells of how, for better or worse, he rose to his unique position as comic genius and preeminent critic of American culture.InDisturber of the Peace, one finds the facts of the stormy Mencken legend: his hectic and...

Goodbye, Darkness

Goodbye, Darkness

The nightmares began for William Manchester twenty-three years after World War II. In his dreams he lived with the recurring image of himself as a battle-weary youth "angrily demanding to know what had happened to the three decades since he had laid...

One Brief Shining Moment

One Brief Shining Moment

William Manchester was friends with John F. Kennedy for two decades before the President’s assassination. In this work, the bestselling author of Portrait of a President and The Death of a President puts aside the tragedy of JFK’s death to celebrate...

Portrait of a President

Portrait of a President

An up-close look at John F. Kennedy by one of his closest confidants, a New York Times–bestselling biographerWritten by a prize-winning historian and biographer of such giants as Winston S. Churchill and Douglas MacArthur, this intimately detailed...

No one knew it was going to be that bad.World War II killed some 60 million people — 20 million of them soldiers — and inflicted wounds, bereavement, poverty and suffering on countless others.But such destruction was an impossible to imagine in...