![]() Now comes William Manchester, biographer of John Kennedy and Douglas MacArthur, to stake out his part of the Churchill ![]() It was a market that he himself exploited to the full, depending on his extraordinary pen to support his family and his luxuries during the ups and downs of his political and military career. ![]() Since his passing, the task has been continued by Martin Gilbert, and there are now five volumes of biography, taking the story to 1939, plus a dozen ''companion volumes'' - a hint of the market for Churchilliana that Churchill imagined even before the World War II years that sealed his fame. ''This sensible advice was naturally heeded,'' wrote Randolph 34 years later to preface the ''colossal work'' of official biography he finally set out to write. Churchill urged a delay, predicting thousands more in the future. ![]() Son Randolph sent a telegram asking permission to write his father's biography for an advance against royalties of (STR)450. A small, telling episode is omitted from the account of Winston Churchill's 1932 visit to America which ends this latest rekindling of the past in the Manchester manner. ![]()
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