![]() ![]() The rich details of the book really did immerse me in the time period. ![]() I started reading the biography back on July 13 and finished yesterday, on September 17, so I spent a good portion of the summer immersed in British and European history, and I found it fascinating. ![]() Manchester did not survive to finish the third volume, and enlisted the help of journalist Paul Reid to complete the task. Not a moment of it was boring, and while I’d say the book doesn’t dethrone David McCullough’s John Adams as my favorite biography, it does join it there, in equal splendor, although for different reasons. For folks who binge-watch TV shows, that is the equivalent of watching about 195 40-minute episodes back-to-back. The audio books are more than 130 hours in length, the equivalent of listening non-stop for 5-1/2 days. The three books total more than 2,000 pages. It is, officially, the longest biography I have ever read, far taking the 3-volume Theodore Roosevelt biography by Edmund Morris. Yesterday, I finished reading William Manchester’s massive 3-volume biography of Winston Churchill, The Last Lion. ![]()
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