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Pastimes : What was the greatest book of the 20th century?
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To: shadowman who wrote (153)8/14/2001 1:44:45 PM
From: Glenn Petersen  Read Replies (1) of 180
 
I have read both of Manchester's Churchill biographies and they are magnificent. I have read "American Caesar", his biography of Douglas MacArthur, three times. These three books are on a par with Robert Caro's two volumes on Lyndon Johnson and David McCullough's "Truman." Manchester also wrote a book entitled "Goodbye, Darkness", a memoir of his WWII experiences island hopping in the South Pacific. One of the best accounts of war from the viewpoint of the average grunt that I have ever read. Interestingly enough, Manchester later noted (to much criticism) that portions of "Goodbye, Darkness" were fictionalized.
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