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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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Average rating: 4.45 · 7,811 ratings · 762 reviews · 3 distinct works

	The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 by William Manchester, Paul Reid (Goodreads Author) 4.44 avg rating — 7,519 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 — 464 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 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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Paul liked Lauren Hiebner's review of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965: "This third volume of Churchill by Manchester was finished by Reid. It was still well written and massive in scope dealing with WWII, the early years of the Cold War and beyond while profiling Churchill’s life and role in that event. They describe Chu" Read more of this review »
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Paul liked Eileen Piwetz's review of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965: "Stunning Incredible biography of one of the greatest figures of the Twentieth Century! This trilogy is a must read for anyone who loves history!"
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Paul liked Michael Jeffries's review of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965: "What a life. Reading Manchester’s volumes of Winston Churchill creates a longing for the vision of the world, the England & America, and the West that he saw. In his lifetime he saw the peak of English glory and its decline after bravely standing aga" Read more of this review »
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Paul made a comment on Brian’s review of The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 " Thank you, Sir! Glad you enjoyed it! Took a while to write, but it was a grand journey. "
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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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