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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 — 7,474 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 — 461 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
	The Last Lion Box Set: 1,2,3 by William, Reid, Paul Reid (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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 John Rossitto’s review of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 " Shirley you shit me with this moronic comparison? "
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Paul liked Sam Bronstein's review of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965: "Sad to be finished. Indescribably good "
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Paul made a comment on Becky Mares’s review of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 " So, Becky, you gave a book you didn't even read, about a subject you don't even like, a 2-star rating? Takes all kinds I guess. Maybe join a comic boo ...more "
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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 »
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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 »
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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 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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