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Biography
DISTURBER OF THE PEACE: The Life of H. L. Mencken
A ROCKEFELLER FAMILY PORTRAIT: From John D. to Nelson
PORTRAIT OF A PRESIDENT: John F. Kennedy in Profile
AMERICAN CAESAR: Douglas MacArthur, 1880–1964
THE LAST LION: WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL; Visions of Glory: 1874–1932
THE LAST LION: WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL; Alone: 1932–1940
History
THE DEATH OF A PRESIDENT: November 20–November 25, 1963
THE ARMS OF KRUPP, 1587–1968
THE GLORY AND THE DREAM: A Narrative History of America, 1932–1972
A WORLD LIT ONLY BY FIRE. The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of An Age
Essays
CONTROVERSY: And Other Essays in Journalism, 1950–1975
IN OUR TIME
Fiction
THE CITY OF ANGER
SHADOW OF THE MONSOON
THE LONG GAINER
Diversion
BEARD THE LION
Memoirs
GOODBYE, DARKNESS: A Memoir of the Pacific War
ONE BRIEF SHINING MOMENT: Remembering Kennedy
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 by William Manchester
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Books by William Manchester
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List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Author’s Note
I The Medieval Mind
II The Shattering
III One Man Alone
Acknowledgments And Sources
Chronology
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Girolamo Savonarola. Painting by Fra Bartolomeo della Porta. Alinari-Scala/Art Resource, NY. Page 43
A sixteenth-century town wall. From Life on a Medieval Barony by William Stearns Davis copyright 1923 by Harper & Brothers; copyright renewed 1951 by William Stearns Davis. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc. Page 49
A medieval fair. From Life on a Medieval Barony by William Stearns Davis copyright 1923 by Harper & Brothers; copyright renewed 1951 by William Stearns Davis. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc. Page 51
Home of a medieval nobleman. From the restoration by Viollet-le-Duc. From Life on a Medieval Barony by William Stearns Davis copyright 1923 by Harper & Brothers; copyright renewed 1951 by William Stearns Davis. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Inc. Page 52
King Francis I of France. Painting by Jean Clouet. Alinari/Art Resource, NY. Page 72
Pope Julius II. Detail from fresco The Mass of Bolsena, by Raphael. Alinari/Art Resource, NY. Page 75
Alexander VI, the Borgia pope. Detail from mural The Resurrection, by Pinturicchio. Alinari/Art Resource, NY. Page 77
Giulia Farnese. Detail from painting The Transfiguration, by Raphael. Alinari/Art Resource, NY. Page 78
Lucrezia Borgia. Detail from mural La Disputa de Santa Caterina, by Pinturicchio. Alinari/Art Resource, NY. Page 81
Cesare Borgia. Painting by Marco Palmezzano. Alinari/Art Resource, NY. Page 83
Nicolaus Copernicus. Engraving, artist unknown. Alinari/Art Resource, NY. Page 90
Leonardo da Vinci. Chalk drawing, self-portrait. Alinari/Art Resource, NY. Page 92
Niccolò Machiavelli. Terra-cotta bust, artist unknown. Alinari/Art Resource, NY. Page 101
Sir Thomas More. Painting by Hans Holbein the Younger. Copyright The Frick Collection, New York. Page 109
Cupola of St. Peter’s. Michelangelo. Alinari/Art Resource, NY. Page 116
Desiderius Erasmus. Painting by Hans Holbein the Younger. Alinari/Art Resource, NY. Page 122
The traffic in indulgences. Detail from woodcut by Hans Holbein the Younger. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936. (36.77). Page 132
St. Peter’s Square in Rome at the time of the coronation of Pope Sixtus V,