# Best single-volume Churchill biography?

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**Created:** [September 10, 2003, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-volume-churchill-biography/200726 "2003-09-10T12:06:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![KXL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@KXL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KXL)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2003, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-volume-churchill-biography/200726/1 "2003-09-10T12:06:24Z")

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Since it looks like William Manchester isn’t going to do any more Winston Churchill books, my question is: what’s the best single-volume Churchill biography?

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**Author:** ![jinty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dbc845/32.png) [@jinty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jinty)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2003, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-single-volume-churchill-biography/200726/2 "2003-09-10T12:34:00Z")

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You might want to check out Roy Jenkins’ recent effort. I haven’t read this myself, so I’m going by the reviews I’ve read, which have been favourable. Unusually for a biographer, Jenkins had held high office himself (former Labour cabinet minister) and like his subject he’d “crossed the house” (moved from one political party to another), so these might give him a different perspective to the average biographer.