SOME BOOKS should be read in tandem. One pair for parallel reading: William Manchester’s second volume in his life of Churchill, “Alone,” and Rich Lowry’s fine new effort: “Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years.” Manchester’s book chronicles the wilderness years of the greatest man of the 20th century, and it is thus obliged to follow the doings of the not-so-great men who held power in Britain through most of the ’30s, including Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain. Here is one small episode from those dreary years:

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