![]() ![]() ![]() (Selecting his son to write his biography continued a tradition, as Winston Churchill had written the biography of his own father, Lord Randolph Churchill. ![]() Randolph Churchill had proven himself capable by researching and writing a biography of Lord Derby. The story of the “Great Biography” starts in 1960 as the then 85 year-old Winston Churchill selected his son Randolph to write his biography based on his voluminous personal papers. As Larry Arnn, the biography’s final editor, has commented its mammoth size is “befitting one of the largest lives ever lived.” Together the volumes, which have been acclaimed as a “classic of English scholarly biography,” total over 42,000 pages, measure 72 linear inches, and weigh 108 pounds. It has both physical and intellectual heft. The completed project consists of eight narrative volumes and 23 document volumes. As determined by the Guinness Book of World Records (the arbiter of such things), it is the longest biography in history. With the publication of the final volume, Never Flinch, Never Weary, October 1951-January 1965, the official biography of Winston Churchill has been completed. ![]()
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