William Manchester

The world has lost a great historian with the death of William Manchester, but CNN's obituary does include a silver lining for the many readers of his books:

Poor health had kept him from completing the third volume of his best-selling Churchill series, "The Last Lion, Volume III." Paul Reid, a feature writer at The Palm Beach Post, was chosen last month to help finish the book.

An immensely popular series, I think it was almost universally believed that the trilogy would remain incomplete. I have no knowledge of Paul Reid or his qualifications, but we can at least hope that he does justice to Manchester's work.