William Manchester
William Manchester | |
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Lahir | William Raymond Manchester (1922-04-01)1 April 1922 Attleboro, Massachusetts, AS |
Meninggal | 1 Juni 2004(2004-06-01) (umur 82) Middletown, Connecticut |
Makam | Indian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Connecticut[1] |
Pekerjaan | Sejarawan, Biografer, Profesor |
Kebangsaan | Amerika |
Karya terkenal | American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880–1964 The Death of a President The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill |
William Raymond Manchester (1 April 1922 – 1 Juni 2004)[2] adalah seorang pengarang, biografer dan sejarawan asal Amerika. Ia adalah pengarang 18 buku yang diterjemahkan ke dalam lebih dari 20 bahasa.[3] Ia dianugerahi National Humanities Medal dan Abraham Lincoln Literary Award.
Catatan
- ^ http://www.granitesign.com/about-fox-becker.html
- ^ Severo, Richard (June 2, 2004). "William Manchester, Whose Biographies Detailed Power in the 20th Century, Dies at 82". The New York Times.
- ^ According to one writer, "Scholars generally disliked the biographies by Manchester. They were deemed superficial, anecdotal, hyperbolic, and hagiographic." Eugene L. Rasor, Winston S. Churchill, 1874–1965: A Comprehensive Historiography and Annotated Bibliography. Greenwood Press. 2000, p. 62.
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William Manchester
- Disturber of the Peace: The Life of H.L. Mencken (1951)
- The City of Anger (1953)
- Shadow of the Monsoon (1956)
- A Rockefeller Family Portrait: From John D. to Nelson (1959)
- The Long Gainer (1961)
- Portrait of a President (1964)
- The Death of a President (1967)
- The Arms of Krupp (1968)
- The Glory and the Dream (1974)
- Controversy and Other Essays in Journalism (1976)
- American Caesar (1978)
- On Mencken (1980)
- Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War (1980)
- One Brief Shining Moment: Remembering Kennedy (1983)
- The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874–1932 (1983)
- Okinawa: The Bloodiest Battle of All (1987)
- The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone 1932–1940 (1988)
- In Our Time: The World As Seen by Magnum Photographers (1989)
- A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance — Portrait of an Age (1992)
- No End Save Victory (2001)
- The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 (2012, dengan pengarang Paul Reid)