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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 — 7,660 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) 4.67 avg rating — 478 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 liked Alyssa Potasznik's review of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965: "Magnificent. "
Aug 11, 2026 10:12AM · see review
Paul and 1 other person liked Zachary Horn's review of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965: "Manchester made a masterful choice. My feelings for this particular volume are difficult to describe. I wasn't aware that William Manchester died before really even beginning this final volume in his three-part biography. My sense of grief upon discov" Read more of this review »
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Paul liked Justin Markham's review of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965: "An important piece of non-fiction. You only get to hear so much from the non-US POV of the war if you live here. Points out his hesitancy about certain events but he is unquestionably, the man. "
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Paul liked Julian Schlaen's review of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965: "Parte final de la biografía... Se me hizo un poco largo realmente, pero valió la pena. En este caso cambia el escritor, que se murió antes de comenzar el proyecto y le pasó la antorcha a otro escritor. Se nota el cambio de autor. Por momentos se pasa" Read more of this review »
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Paul made a comment on Sean O’s review of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 " Thank You, sir. "
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Paul made a comment on Julio The Fox’s review of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 " Thank you, I suppose. Kind of a garbled word salad, but thank you "
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Paul made a comment on Lauren Hiebner’s review of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 " Thank you very much for this thoughtful review! "
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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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