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What is your evidence Manchester was a liberal? It seems like people on this thread are talking a lot of trash about the man, but I have been searching the net for almost one half hour and I can't find any quote or biography of Manchester that leads me to believe he was overtly political in any way. Certainly the content of his books speaks to the conservative mind and outlook.

I can't give you the specific cites, but I've read enough stuff about Manchester over the years to where he comes across as pretty much your standard New Deal liberal politically. And I don't think that's flaming or insulting him at all. Another thing about old-line liberals, at least in my experience with them, is that you could wage political combat with them, then leave it at the office and have a civil and cordial relationship with them away from the battlefield. Unlike today's venomous, hate-filled left. And if Manchester's political views don't come across in his work ... hey, we ought to be applauding him for that. Haven't we had enough, quote, "historians," unquote, put their own unique slants on things? Manchester has always played it straight, and that's the way it ought to be.