Winston churchill biography the last lion books

Meanwhile, Winston bided his time by designing weaponry to break the stalemate. He is considered father of the modern battle tank. The second war was really the second half to use a sports analogy. Because of the Tory appeasers, the pacifists, and the socialists, the UK didn't really show up for the second half…that is until Winston Spencer Churchill was called out of semi-retirement.

Manchester demonstrates that this statement is oversimplified. Complex factors such as the ruined economies, the appeasers who wished for peace at any cost, the pacifist movement in England and those political hacks that garnered their vote, the communism and fascism that replaced the monarchies and the fall of the British Empire all contributed to the 2nd war.

Read this book to understand how to avoid the 3rd war. I also have to say that the narrator, Fredrick Davidson, did a fine job. His impression of Winston was spot on. He sounds more like Winston than old recordings of Winston. Davidson's impression of Winston and Manchester's sarcasm and detail makes for an entertaining read. As Churchill said in the wake of Dunkirk I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

The book reads much, much easier. Mikey B. This is definitely an enthralling and epic story. What a life this man lived — from participating in battles in Afghanistan and horse cavalry charges in the Sudan — and after, a major Parliamentary figure in the British House of Commons. Manchester brings it all vividly to life. He provides us with a portrait of Winston as an unrequited Victorian.

He always believed in empire, in colonization and the superiority of Europeans over all others. So the author gives us a rounded and imperfect figure towering over all others — particularly after World War I. He was a man of immense vitality — as the author states, of the thousands of pictures of Churchill, there is not one where he looks bored.

Winston received little affection and attention from both his parents, but his marriage to Clementine was a wonderful success.

Winston churchill biography the last lion books

The hundreds of letters the two wrote to each other attest to this mutual love and support of each other. Clementine was able to stand up to her husband and correct his often over-bearing and dominating manner. As Lloyd George understood, it was better to have him with you than against you. Winston against you was formidable, in speeches and in writing.

This is a marvelous biography of one of the great figures in history — one, who in many ways, had his feet in both the 19th and 20th centuries. A man of contradictions; who could not abide a man of peace like Gandhi, but who clearly saw the menace of Hitler. Manchester gives us, at times, a vast portrayal of the varied time periods and this is a long book at close to pages.

There are many rewards in this examination of this invigorating personality. At the end of this first volume in , Winston Churchill was 58 years of age — he had much left to do. Page in Each morning he and Clementine carefully read newspapers One consequence of this was that Churchill became the first statesmen in England to discover that, for the second time in a generation, a strange light had appeared and was growing on the map of Europe.

When his flag-draped coffin moved slowly across the old capital, drawn by naval ratings, and bareheaded Londoners stood trembling in the cold, they mourned, not only him and all he meant, but all that they had been, and no longer were, and would never be again. William Manchester is a master of biography. And his subject Winston Churchill was one of the most gifted men ever to walk on earth.

An excellent writer and debater, he was also able to paint and build brick walls. His immense personality could both charm and alienate people. Through his force of personality, he swayed many debates in the House of Commons. Like every man he had his flaws. His temper could be a terrible thing to witness, and his view of nonwhites would be labeled racist today.

He was a man who believed that government should be paternalistic and protect and provide for those unable to take care of themselves. He warned people about the coming threat of Hitler but was charmed initially by Mussolini. He struggled financially all his life and wrote furiously to make ends meet. He like to live large-cigars and fine liquor.

He was blessed with Clementine for a wife, and she was a practical and able partner. He was politically ambitious and during this part of his life he held a seat in the House of Commons, was Chancellor of the Exchequer, Minister of Munitions, and a Naval Lord. In his youth, he served in the military and was extremely brave and fearless. His life brought him into contact with the major power players of his time Lloyd George, Asquith, and Stanley Baldwin.

I am looking forward to moving on to Volume II covering the years between the wars. In fact, part of the tile of the second volume is the years alone. The Last Lion Vol 1 is a well researched biography covering Winston's childhood, his military career, his early periods as a statesman in several of the highest positions in government and then the near fatal accident in NYC in when he was If you are a biography aficionado, this series is considered required reading.

I put off this bio for so long both because of the length and I thought I knew everything about Churchill, which I didn't. I have read several Manchester books previously and this is the best of his books. Manchester spends a lot of time developing the character of a young Winston but as Winston ages there is more discussion of the various battles and politics of the time than straight bio.

I would have liked to have a longer discussion of Winston's capture in the Boer War as it was interesting. I think the discussion about the military operation in Khartoum could have also been longer. However the coverage of the Victorian aspects of the era were a little much at times and Manchester can be a little sexist in his treatment of Winston's mother.

Overall a well balanced and superbly written biography about Winston Churchill, an icon in world history. Churchill is best known as the one who stood alone against the Dark Tyranny. Few who have ever walked the planet could have inspired the courage of the Free World as he did. For this he has been lionized and rightly takes his place in the pantheon of historical heroes.

But there is far more to the man than the headlines of history. Churchill would almost surely be considered a sociopath by any modern definition. The signs emerged as a youth. He was stubbornly misbehaved in school and was almost universally disliked by his peers--they found him annoying. Insufferable, even. He was unable to successfully court young Pamela despite clearly expressed mutual interest.

He was too self-absorbed. As a war correspondent, he presumptuously assumed the role of solider, dashing recklessly to the front lines of battle. He believed himself to be invincible. The whiz of bullets was a thrill. He took these risks for the glory of the moment, as a performer for an audience. But there was more to it. He believed his heroic feats would earn him political votes at home.

He spent his life pursuing and accumulating political capital. Conquering the political arena was his greatest ambition. He dominated every conversation in which he took part. It did not matter if it was with friends and family or monarchs and heads of state. They were privileged to hear his thoughts, he believed. Not the reverse. He often lacked empathy.

When his brother's house burned down, all Winston recorded in his diary was the great adventure of fighting the flames; not a word about the loss his family just suffered. It was, as Manchester writes, completely inappropriate. Examining all these facets raises many interesting, if not disturbing, questions. But it's this complexity that makes the man, and also what makes reading a book like this so invigorating.

Despite these strictures, Churchill was not unlovable. He had a charm that was undeniable. He was a loving husband and father. He was intent on ensuring his children never experienced the abandon he did by his own parents. He was a gracious and entertaining host, opening his countryside home freely to all manners of guests. In defeat of which he experienced many over the years he was defiant, but in victory, merciful.

And there, just there, was the rub. After the Great War, Churchill wanted to extend an arm of peace to the Germans--deliver provisions, ease their debts. The rest of Parliament, along with the Allies, disagreed. The Treaty of Versailles would assert their punitive views and it sowed the seeds of resentment that would flower in the ugliest of manners twenty years later.

Some believe Versailles to be a convenient scapegoat for an inevitable future. Regardless, Churchill could see the threat of Germany clearly, yet no one would listen to him. That solitary foresight was a recurring theme in his professional life. It often cost him. It would also make him. A time was coming when he alone could be turned to because he had a proven backbone.

That strength would become the hope of the nation. It is here, with this foreshadowing of a future Germany, where Manchester concludes this first book in the trilogy. It's a rousing crescendo. He has drawn a portrait of Churchill, setting him up as the protagonist for whom we cheer despite his flaws perhaps, even, because of his flaws; they make heroes more trustworthy, not less.

And then Manchester springs the villain. Not much is said about him. Not much needs to be said. It's the story we're familiar with. It's the story of Good versus Evil. It's a clash we are innately drawn to, as it's woven into the fabric of our inner being as humans. Manchester, having masterfully drawn the strings taut, leaves us on the edge of our seats, eager for the next scene.

One side note. This book covers the first 58 years of Churchill's life. There is more life in those years than most people experience in the whole of their time on earth. Churchill saw war on four continents. He was taken prisoner in one of them. He escaped. He was head of Admiralty and was blamed for a major strategic blunder in World War I it was later admitted by others that the blunder was in execution, not strategy, again proving Churchill's prescience.

He dealt with issues of empire the world over: India and Ireland and Australia and Canada and Africa and more. He lost a child before her third birthday. He crossed the floor of Parliament twice. He was banished three times with more falls from grace to come. He wrote prolifically, publishing news articles and books and histories and memoirs.

These, just a fraction of his doings, were all before he turned sixty. And yet--and yet! It's as if his first 60 years were just the warm up. Forget the concept of retirement. The main event awaits. Brian Eshleman. With nearly pages and a dynamic figure like Churchill, an author can do darn near anything he likes, so we shouldn't be surprised that he does.

The author is able to give a detailed, sweeping picture of his subject's times. Then, he is able to "zoom in" on Churchill's psyche and look at the impact of his parentage, his depression, and his indomitable will. That material which is in between intimate examination of Churchilll and sweeping examination of his times is what is somewhat tedious.

His political ups and downs relative to other figures don't seem all that relevant. His positions on particular legislation doesn't really engage the reader — at least as an American. Of course, as the author himself observes, even with a particular topic is limited to a contemporary matter, Winston Churchill can drop in observations that are timeless and do so in an amazingly quotable fashion.

In fact, that may have been the biggest surprise of the biography, to see Winston Churchill as a working writer rather than as an aristocrat dabbling with writing. He came from an illustrious family, but that family did not leave him much wealth or do a lot to help him. Instead, he supported himself by his own adventures and then by his writing. This was something at which he worked steadily even when high-profile government positions would've been more than a full-time commitment for anyone who didn't have his inexhaustible energy and commitment to his own advancement.

Churchill's enthusiasm, and particularly his enthusiasm for words,, is infectious. Highly recommended! Daniel Burton. There are few political leaders that have captured my imagination like Winston Churchill does. William Manchester not only tells the story of what is perhaps Britain's greatest prime minister, he does it in fantastic detail. I've read complaints that Manchester uses perhaps too much detail, but I could not have enjoyed it more.

Manchester paints a picture of life at the end of one era--the Victorian--and beginning of the next, the Edwardian. Churchill's life straddled change in eras, and Manchester doesn't just write Churchill's biography, but a history of the time that is full and vibrant. Churchill isn't just a great leader, but a product of both the past and the future.

His lived as colorfully and dangerously as any writer could have imagined, in spite of a beginning that was marked by comfort and wealth. Born to a wealthy aristocratic family, Winston was raised by a nanny while his father and mother an American were off gallivanting with the nobles of England. Along the way, Winston proved to be a poor student and got himself kicked out of several schools.

Never close to his father--if at all--Winston would write pleading letters to his mother to come visit him during the years he would spend at prep school. His father died young after being marginalized from a career that put him on the threshold of England's prime minister-ship. The family's wealth mostly squandered, Winston was required to find a career, unique from his aristocratic peers who were used to living off of their families' wealth.

He had always had an interest in the military, and he pursued a career that combined writing and military action, utilizing his mother's influence in the aristocracy to go where the action was. He saw action in Afghanistan and Sudan, and he sent home breathtaking accounts to the newspapers that catapulted him into the nation's consciousness.

And it only gets better. Winston would feed himself by his pen for the rest of his life, writing articles, stories, books, and even publishing an entire newspaper during a nationwide general strike. He served as First Lord of the Admiralty at a time when Britain ruled the waives and the British Navy was unrivaled on the seas. Though later blamed for the disastrous Gallipoli campaign, Winston would be a remain force to reckoned with in the House of Commons through out his life.

Winston would levy powerful rhetoric in defense of his allies and against his enemies, giving "impromptu" speeches after hours of preparation the night before. This first volume of the biography covers the first fifty eight years of Churchill's life, up to a time when many politicians would be entering the twilight of their careers. Faced with setbacks and defeats, Churchill himself switched parties twice over the course of his career.

I look forward reading the next volume in Manchester's trilogy. Two more volumes of equal length. So well written and involving that I don't mind the length. Aaron Million. At times, the first volume of William Manchester's trilogy on Winston Churchill reads like fiction. This was a man who had a larger-than-life personality beginning in childhood.

Churchill was pampered, but not loved, while growing up. Born into fairly comfortable circumstances, he was shunted off to hired help and special prep schools for rich kids, but longed for the love of his parents. In the case of his father, Randolph, he never got it. Manchester writes about this at length, and delves into how this distant, cold relationship affected Churchill, but he does not go overboard on the psychobabble.

The same with his mother, Jennie, although she eventually becomes a strong supporter of Churchill as he becomes an adult. Manchester is adept at setting scenes, and he spends a long time painting a picture of the London that Churchill grew up in, and beyond that the climate, attitudes, and prejudices of the British Islands and its people.

This was the Victorian age, when Britain dominated the world scene; in some ways Churchill could never bring himself to accept that this ended with WWI. Because Churchill knows so many people, goes to so many places, and holds so many positions, the cast of characters is enormous. This is daunting to keep up with, especially amongst Cabinet officials as they come and go.

I do not necessarily think this reflects poorly on Manchester's writing ability, but there are times when a major character does not get an adequate introduction. Herbert Asquith, the first Prime Minister that Churchill served directly under, is sort of just there; we do not really know what he did to get that extremely high level himself.

At times, Manchester includes throw-away, snide remarks about people or situations. While not numerous enough to interrupt the flow or cause me to dislike the book, they do seem ill-humored and unnecessary. An example occurs on page He is writing about two high-class young men Asquith's son is one of them , who both served and died in WWI, as they were marching in a procession in front of King George V prior to shipping off to France.

He writes about how both men, sadly, predicted their own deaths in the insane conflict with Germany. Even the King had remarked on it. Additionally, he frequently mixes in phrases in other languages Latin, French, German. Once in awhile is okay, but after so many I came to be mildly annoyed, especially when a few of them were passages rather than phrases.

While recognizing Churchill's greatness, I cannot come to like the man, although I do like his sense of humor and ability to laugh at himself. He was a person who expected — and usually got — special treatment. Without a leg up on the ordinary citizen, I am left wondering just how far his own ego would have taken him. While it was pretty hefty, many of his early breaks came due to nothing more fortuitous than the family that he was born into.

Even when, after being forced out of the War Cabinet in following the Dardanelles disaster in WWI, he enlisted to serve on the western front. A noble thing to do, and certainly he didn't have to go anywhere near there. Yet, his experience was quite different from that of the regular infantryman. He still got special privileges and treatment, despite also experiencing some of the unpleasantness and misery of war.

Manchester carefully wades through the Dardanelles campaign to show that, while definitely not blameless, Churchill was unfairly left holding the bag. Again, it was hard for me to feel sorry for him based on how willing he was to use people to get where he wanted to go. A definite strength to this book is that Manchester's view, while admiring, is nowhere near fawning.

Clearly, he holds a great deal of respect for Churchill and his vast accomplishments. And there is a great deal to respect. But he also examines Churchill's numerous faults and how, frequently, he was his own worst enemy. They refrained from criticizing Hitler because they were afraid that they may provoke him. Even after England declared war, Chamberlain was still worried about offending Hitler.

Meanwhile the Luftwaffe patrolled over France. This is mind-boggling. This stands as an example of what disasters befall us when good, well intended men are duped by a psychopath. Thank God the free world had a man like Winston Spencer Churchill to take up the fight. If you are in favor of appeasement or rewarding an aggressor nation please read this book.

I, for one would follow that man anywhere. I still have goosebumps from reading the ending of Volume II of this magnificent biographical trilogy. Churchill becomes Prime Minister as Nazi tanks roll across France. At 65 years old, Churchill assumes power to take on the dominating foe that he has been warning the nation about for years.

Well researched and with quotes from letters, and diaries, the reality of those times become authentic, and readers can imagine their parents, a fatherless young man growing up in a small town in Kansas and their mother one of nine children on a farm that just survived the depression, ready to have their live affected by these world events.

This biography should be required reading. Right now, the rage is to understand the experiences of minorities and to right past wrongs, but they were affected by these great world events and played a role in securing our freedom too. Winston Churchill was the kind of man born once every hundred years or so with vast talents and abilities but also many human flaws.

This work provides an opportunity for readers to see the life of such a man through the lens of historical events. I know that Manchester did not live to finish the final volume, but I am excited to begin it anyway. Mikey B. But, your hazard and your preoccupation are in no way affected thereby. It is very painful. Moreover, it is not only in regards to Jews that there is intolerance.

Religious opinions, Protestant and Catholic alike, are subject to a prejudice of which we fondly hoped and were brought up to believe, the nineteenth century had rid the world. Very often when these conversations begin they go very nicely for a certain time, and then it appears that what the Germans want is that peace and good will should be translated forthwith into tangible and solid immediate benefits which they are to receive.

Very often it is suggested that we should promise to do something, or give something, or, what is perhaps even more difficult, to stand by and see something or other done that may not be desirable. For most of these years Churchill stood terribly alone — his voice and writings unheeded. It was only in March, after Nazi Germany snuffed out what remained of forlorn Czechoslovakia that the gaze of those in Parliament, the media in those days newspapers and radio and the British people turned towards him, realizing how prescient were his words over the years.

And what words — the eloquence shines into immortality! In Parliament, in newspapers he warned again and again of Nazi Germany — he realized from its very beginnings its dark threats to the future of civilization. Churchill knew the true nature of Hitler and Nazism. They genuinely thought they could come to terms with Hitler, not realizing that dealing with Hitler was not like dealing with another democracy like France or Holland.

In other words England, France and the Soviet Union would guarantee the territorial integrity of Poland. Geographically this does not make sense as the Soviet Union does not share a border with Germany. Poland for obvious historical reasons did not want Soviet troops intruding on her territory to purportedly protect Poland. What was truly frightening and remarkable is that the author provides us with several instances of how the English government suppressed criticism of Nazi Germany for fear of offending Hitler.

The BBC would not allow Churchill to do radio broadcasts. So dominant and popular was the dogma of appeasement that they emasculated criticism of the regime they felt they could get onside with repeated concessions. Eleven years in the political wilderness had freed me from ordinary party antagonisms. My warnings over the last six years had been so numerous, so detailed, and were now so terribly vindicated, that no one could gainsay me.

Eight hundred plus pages of Churchill in the wilderness. The book was hard to read as I found myself exasperated at a whole class of leaders, a whole nation, actually many nations, that could not see what Churchill could see. I understand that knowing the history of WWII gives me a special position to judge, but I found it nearly unbelievable almost no one for a decade did not heed the warnings in his speeches and writings.

Warned about a rearming Germany and calling for the United Kingdom to rearm, he was called hysterical. Warns about Hitler's nature as put down in Mien Kampt. He was called a warmonger. Warned not to stand for Germany taking the Rhine,he was called crazy. Warned they should not give in to Hitler on Czechoslovakia, he was called an embarrassment.

When he warned Poland is next, he was told repeatedly they didn't want to get Hitler mad at Britain and appeasing him was the only way. When he is finally named Prime Minister in the last pages of the book — after war had been declared and on the very day France came under attack — the book became very enjoyable. Just fruits. I'm very impressed with the thoroughness of Manchester and his ability to make a very frustrating story readable and enjoyable.

I learned a great deal about how Hitler was allowed, no, assisted, in bringing Europe to the edge of of a cliff. Also learned more about the government of the UK. Can't wait to read the last volume. Michael Perkins. Author 5 books followers. The first volume of this trilogy reads like a novel. A friend of mine, based on the mixture of subject matter for volume 1 and the great writing, described reading it as "like eating candy.

I would learn many years later that the author was struggling with a serious case of writer's block. Which also explains why he never wrote the final volume, even though he had done a great deal of research on it. Thomas Cook. Author 6 books 21 followers. Perseverance and redemption defined. Carol Storm. Author 28 books followers. What an awe-inspiring man, and what a tremendously ambitious biography.

Succeeds beyond all expectation! This is the pinnacle of longform biography. Manchester opens with an Allegro tone, visiting Churchill in his beloved Chartwell home, describing his daily routine—which sounds mundane but is really quite something. Then the clouds roll in. They enabled him. Manchester draws out the facts of the matter at length in this second movement, the glum Adagio.

It is tormenting to read. Having brought us to the brink of despair, Manchester then turns to the third movement. There is a new electricity running through his pen. He wants war and he gets it. Parliament must now pay for their years of appeasement. They are not the ones who can carry the fight forward. There is only one who can and everyone knows it.

He bursts back onto the stage, piercing the darkness. Hope shines through. I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength God can give us. I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

An eloquent voicing crying out in the wilderness a warning of war and dismissed until vindicated when that war begins, the nation and the world towards him as the last shining hope of the war. From the outset Manchester indicates that a biography is not just about a person, but also the times that individual lived in. During these years, Churchill would write columns and articles in various British media and around the world warning the dangers of the Nazis only to be labeled a warmonger until Hitler set his eyes on territorial expansion and many around the continent looked to him to plead for them in front of the British public while the Nazis would always attack him in their propaganda newspapers and complain to the appeaser British ambassador.

With the rise of Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister the enabling of Hitler through appeasement and undermining of their alliance with France while discouraging the German military from overthrowing Hitler which would have precluded the start of another war. Once again First Lord of the Admiralty, Churchill literally led the British war effort as it was the Royal Navy was instantly was fighting the Germans not the Army or Air Force until the Norway and the invasion of the Low Countries in at which time the Conversative backbenchers and Labour forced Chamberlain to surrender his office and nominating Churchill to George VI.

Though Churchill is the focus throughout, the lives and actions of Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Adolf Hitler, and many others are covered especially in their reactions to and from Churchill. Deb Cutler. This was the most compelling biography I have ever read. For years I have wondered how to understand World War II-the forces that led up to it and the counties that seemed to just give up and allow Hitler and the Nazi's to take over their countries.

This book weaves together the facts and the opinions of not just Winston Churchill, but the other politicians and observers in a logical, sympathetic sometimes way. I am going to read the preceding work and finally the WWII years so that I have a better understanding of not just the United Kingdom's attitudes, but of the European view as well.

Naturally the United States plays a significantly smaller role in a biography of Winston Churchill than the UK does, but as an American I need to step back and learn from this perspective, it is quite a shock to view the war from this perspective. I kept wanting to shout, "Don't let the Germans take over," but naturally I couldn't do anything and that was so frustrating, but i does help to understand the whys of the lives that were lost and the war that was supposed to-once again-end all wars.

This second volume is good, focused on the years Manchester examines the internal politics of Britain and the international diplomatic goings on of Europe at the time. Churchill is the main character of course, but Manchester keeps this book very broad and zeroes in on quite a few political figures, especially Neville Chamberlain to devastating effect and quite a few other European figures.

Manchester makes it easy to follow the diplomatic strategies and decisions taken by various European powers and their politicians. In his view the greatest errors were made by politicians who blindly adhered to the idea of keeping peace no matter the cost Churchill on the other hand saw the threat and risk that this policy held, and his unheeded warnings and fears would eventually be proven accurate.

Many of Britain and France's most powerful politicians would continue blindly clinging to their appeasement policy in spite of event after event that clearly contradicted their stance. In the end, Hitler was the greatest beneficiary of this policy Jason Russell. Utterly brilliant. A mesmerizing read from cover to cover. It was a bit jarring to realize about pages in that the focus would stray only briefly and infrequently away from the growing Nazi menace and Churchill's solitary voice warning against it.

But that's where the story was. This volume, tragically, paints a horrible picture of the British policy of appeasement, which dominated the cabinet, the media, and other stakeholders, well before it was infamously embodied at Munich. Looking back now, knowing the pure evil designs and outcomes of Herr Hitler and his regime, it's shocking to see how willing the British government was to let him do his thing, often simply out of fear of offending Hitler.

It's unfathomable. In that regard, reading this volume was almost like watching a train wreck. You just want to scream at Chamberlain, et al. Looking forward to volume three Peter Mottola. Winston Churchill's crusade to the warn the world about Hitler is painful to read about: the great admiration for the Nazis shown by so many Englishman will rile the modern reader.

But the events of these years show Churchill's strength of character, which should be inspiring to anyone who has ever played the role of a lone voice crying out in the wilderness. The audiobook narration by Richard Brown is vastly inferior to the production of volume one by Frederick Davidson, but the book itself is so excellent that listeners will find it worthwhile to press forward through this second volume of the trilogy.

John Bohnert. It was very difficult to read how Britain repeatedly appeased Hitler. Churchill alone spoke out over the prewar years warning Britain that Hitler was a serious threat. But Winston was ridiculed. Sherry Sharpnack. It covers the years when Churchill was a backbencher in Parliament, ignored for a ministry by his own party.

He was the lone voice crying in the wilderness about Adolph Hitler. All the government, the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, and even the English people wanted was peace. Peace at any price. This led to the policy of appeasememnt, of constantly saying, "This far and no further," to Hitler, but never meaning it. My shame, rage, and embarrassment for the government while reading about the Munich agreement that sacrificed Czechoslovakia as a viable state was palpable.

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