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After stints in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a worker in a cat-food factory, blue-grass guitarist, cab driver, bartender, and counselor at a home for emotionally disturbed children, Paul Reid, and his brother, bought a small steam-valve manufacturing business in Newtonville, Mass. As Bostonians and loyal Red Sox fans, they also bought season tickets at Fenway Park, where Reid had worked as a parking lot attendant in 1967.

In the early 1990s, after selling his share of the company, Reid began writing political commentary for local Massachusetts newspapers, which led to a regular op-ed column at the Boston Globe. As a free-lance writer he covered the Yugoslav civil war, narco-terrorism in Colombia, and the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

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	The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 by William Manchester, Paul Reid (Goodreads Author) 4.44 avg rating — 7,441 ratings — published 2012 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill (The Last Lion, #1-3) by William Manchester, Paul Reid (Goodreads Author) 4.66 avg rating — 453 ratings — published 2012 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Paul made a comment on David Nissan’s review of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 " Thank You! "
Nov 18, 2025 01:21PM · see review
Paul liked David Nissan's review of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965: "So much I learned about this world leader. His steady leadership in crisis, his singular view of the ally war goals. I recently read Eisenhowers memoirs, and they offer an interesting comparison, with churchilll and Eisenhower both critical of each o" Read more of this review »
Nov 15, 2025 04:03PM · see review
Paul liked Holt Dwyer's review of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965: "A well-written and impeccably detailed telling of the life and times of Winston Churchill, filled with colorful anecdotes and the subject's unflagging humor. The Churchill who emerges from this biography is highly eccentric but very human figure: bib" Read more of this review »
Oct 09, 2025 07:51AM · see review
Paul made a comment on Holt Dwyer’s review of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 " Thank you for a thoughtful critique! "
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Paul liked Lilly Bolliger's review of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965: "Churchill was wild "
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Paul liked Dave Herron's review of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965: ""The day may dawn when fair play, love for one's fellow-men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth serene and triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never wear" Read more of this review »
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Paul made a comment on Rick’s review of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 " Thank you, Sir. Much appreciated. I think Bill Manchester would say the same. "
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Paul made a comment on Hayden Wolf’s review of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 " Thank you. I'm glad you said it's not a detailed "history" of WWII and its battles. It is a bio of Churchill at war--and after the war, Churchill's st ...more "
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Paul made a comment on Judith E’s review of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 " Thank You. "
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Paul answered a question about The Last Lion: I do not want to dedicate to reading all three books .... would it be worth it only to read the last book? Yes, I and my editors wanted this to be a stand-alone book. We incorporated a long prologue that gives a look at Churchill's life before 1940, addresses his habits, political changes of heart, family life, the idea being to give readers who are not f See Full Answer
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“In many ways Churchill remained a nineteenth-century man, and by no means a common man. He fit the mold of what Henry James called in English Hours “persons for whom the private machinery of ease has been made to work with extraordinary smoothness.”
― Paul Reid, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill

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“I have always held… that the skin of the bear must not be distributed until the bear has been killed.”
― Paul Reid, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill

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“His effect on men is one of interest and curiosity, not of admiration and loyalty. His power is the power of gifts, not character. Men watch him, but do not follow him”
― Paul Reid, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill

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