He was shaped by a then passing, now long departed age, and he was shaped by a peculiar upbringing. The second thesis of Manchester's biography is that Churchill was an epiphenomenon. He was a "tribune for honor, loyalty, duty, and the supreme virtue of action one who would never compromise with iniquity, who could create a sublime mood and thus give men heroic visions of what they were and might become." He was his country's last chance, and in the end he was his country's savior. Manchester informs us that Churchill was a brilliant writer and a courageous soldier. The first thesis of William Manchester's biography of Winston Churchill is that Winston Churchill was a great man. A review of The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill, volume one, Visions of Glory: 1874-1932, by William Manchester
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