November 28, 2012

Wednesday, 28 November 2012 – 6:00 PM

Location: Pritzker Military Library, Suite 400 104 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Illinois 

Please join us, along with Paul Reid, for the much anticipated launch of the third and final volume of The Last Lion.

This program is presented by Pritzker Military Library along with The Churchill Centre.

The Churchill Centre has arranged for a limited block of seats for member’s and supporters. The tickets are free, but in order to reserve one of these places, you must register in advance by contacting The Churchill Centre’s Dan Myers via email here. 

William Manchester was a tremendously successful popular historian and biographer whose books include The Last Lion: Visions of Glory, The Last Lion: Alone, Goodbye Darkness, A World Lit Only by Fire, The Glory and the Dream, The Arms of Krupp, American Caesar, and The Death of A President.

In 1998, after completing much of the research for the final volume of The Last Lion, Manchester suffered two strokes that left him unable to write. Manchester sought a writer with a reporting background to complete his work. In 2003, Manchester asked his friend Paul Reid to complete Defender of the Realm. Reid, who now lives in North Carolina, had spent many years as a feature writer for the Palm Beach Post. But Manchester died less than two months after passing the baton to Reid. Before writing Defender of the Realm, Reid augmented Manchester’s voluminous notes with extensive research of his own. The result, after more than eight years of effort, is the most thrilling volume of The Last Lion triptych.

For more information on this event, please visit the Pritzker Military Library website.