Manchester William

William Raymond Manchester (1er avril 1922 – 1er juin 2004) est un historien américain et un biographe connu comme auteur de 18 best-sellers traduits dans 20 langues. 

Publications

• Disturber of the Peace: The Life of H.L. Mencken (1951)
• The City of Anger, a novel. (1953)
• Shadow of the Monsoon (1956)
• A Rockefeller Family Portrait, from John D. to Nelson (1959)
• Beard the Lion (Cairo Intrigue), a novel (1959)
• The Long Gainer, a novel (1961)
• Portrait of a President, John F. Kennedy in profile (1964)
• The Death of a President: November 20 – 25 (1967)
• The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty that Armed Germany at War (1968)
• The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932–1972 (1974)
• Controversy and other essays in journalism (1976)
• American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880–1964 (1978)
• On Mencken, essays (1980)
• Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War (1980) In which Manchester revisits the Bataan Death March, alternating a narrative of walking the long after the war, conversation with Japanese about their memories of that march, and intelligent engagement with the historical record.[17]
• One Brief Shining Moment: Remembering Kennedy (1983)
• The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874–1932 (1983)
• "Okinawa: The Bloodiest...", an essay. (1987)
• The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone 1932–1940 (1988)
• In Our Time: The World as Seen by Magnum Photographers. New York; London: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1989. ISBN 0-393-02767-8. With essays by Manchester ("Images: a Wide Angle"), Jean Lacouture ("The Founders") and Fred Ritchin ("What is Magnum?"), and "Biographical Notes and Selected Bibliographies" and "Bibliography and Chronology of Magnum" by Stuart Alexander.
• A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance—Portrait of an Age (1992) ISBN 0-316-54556-2
• Magellan (1994)
• No End Save Victory (2001)
• Goodbye Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War (2002)
• The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 (2012) (with co-author Paul Reid)