William Manchester, 82, whose riveting books about men in military and political life made him one of the greatest popular historians of the 20th century, died June 1 at his home in Middletown ...

Manchester was the author of popular biographies on Winston Churchill and Douglas MacArthur and was the controversial chronicler of President Kennedy's assassination.

AFTER the Kennedys invited William Manchester in February 1964 to write an account of the assassination, Bobby Kennedy thought that the author might whip through his work before the 1964 election ...

MIDDLETOWN Historian William Manchester ... Kennedy, died of cancer Tuesday at 82. Manchester wrote 18 books, including two novels, but was best known in recent years for his magisterial ...

William Manchester, author of popular biographies on Winston Churchill and Douglas MacArthur and the controversial chronicler of President Kennedy’s assassination, died Tuesday. He was 82.

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Hartford, Conn.? William Manchester, author of popular biographies on Winston Churchill and Douglas MacArthur and the controversial chronicler of President Kennedy’s assassination, died Tuesday.

More than 30 years after the historian William Manchester began his epic multivolume ... Post, to serve as the third book’s co-author. Reid never dreamed he would end up finishing Defender ...