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Bad reviews are the bane of an author's post-publication existence.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: Bad reviews are the bane
I'm not promising to write 'JFK 2' - but one day, I might!
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: I'm not promising to write
I'm fascinated by the concept of what I call 'clusters of creativity': the Brontes, the Waughs, families with several geniuses. I'm one of four; competition among siblings has to be a factor.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: I'm fascinated by the concept
That's the miracle of Amazon! It's like Internet dating. In the early days, you could get slimed as an author on Amazon by someone bearing a grudge, or jealous, or whatever. And because there were so few reviews posted, this stank.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: That's the miracle of Amazon!
I was an 18-year-old kid, and I was in the heart of things in Washington. My interest in American politics and, particularly, the Kennedys, began then.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: I was an 18-year-old kid,
I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the social fabric - and it was not very nice.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: I grew up and lived
In daring to re-tell the stories of the last twelve American presidents, both public and private, I knew I would incur some outrage with 'American Caesars.'
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: In daring to re-tell the
Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: Thanksgiving is a time of
Since his inauguration in 2009, President Obama has upheld FDR's vision of America as a nation that keeps its word - a nation still committed to uphold the 'four freedoms' that President Roosevelt set down in the great Atlantic Charter of August 1941.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: Since his inauguration in 2009,
Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on February 22 each year, in peace or in war.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's
Both JFK and George W. Bush were the sons of wealthy U.S. ambassadors and thus privileged to meet distinguished figures, to travel, and to see the world and think about its problems if they chose.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: Both JFK and George W.
Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our species.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: Selective memory is surely one
After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just east of London.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: After university, I taught secondary
I am all for charity in judging the men who have occupied the Oval Office over the past seventy years, given the huge responsibilities the president carries across the world.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: I am all for charity
At times, the reader of World War II literature must think every American, from general to G.I., kept a war diary, later mined for memoirs of the conflict. Few diaries, however, were published in their own right.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: At times, the reader of
For the serious biographer, history and the life story of a real individual are inseparably intertwined. Get the facts wrong, or distort them, and the life story gets distorted: becomes fiction.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: For the serious biographer, history
Bill Clinton beat Bush's father, President George H.W. Bush, for the White House in 1992 by focusing on 'the economy, stupid' - and Clinton's victory led, in time, to the longest sustained boom in American history.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: Bill Clinton beat Bush's father,
As a student, I had stayed with Winston Churchill; later, I had lunched with Harold Macmillan - in fact, had met most of the post-war prime ministers of Great Britain from Douglas-Home to Tony Blair.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: As a student, I had
Listening to the stories my colleagues are researching and grappling with - in terms of access to documents, psychological understanding of their subjects, artful composition and determination to extrapolate from an individual's life lessons and insights that we can all learn from - I am each time overwhelmed by joy.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: Listening to the stories my
Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad sides of success, as America's growing celebrity culture turned a simple Irish American gladiator into a national, in fact international hero. A very human story with profound parallels for our sports-obsessed culture today!
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: Sports biography at its best.
It must have been the fall of 1952 when my father returned to London sporting a neck tie emblazoned with the words 'I Like Ike.'
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: It must have been the
Some of the History Channel's documentaries involve docudrama segments and are highly speculative - but there seems, on the part of the producers, to be a real determination to get at the history behind our past - not the sex, which is left to drama shows and entertainment channels.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: Some of the History Channel's
I once wrote that Lord Moran, Churchill's doctor, had doctored his diaries as well as his famous patient. That was true but unfair. Although their authenticity as contemporary, daily accounts is often questionable, the observations are quite wonderful.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: I once wrote that Lord
If the reader doesn't understand what you're saying, you're talking to yourself.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: If the reader doesn't understand
In my case, I belong to a group of aspiring and practicing biographers in Boston. We meet once a month for a coupla hours. It's become my lifeline - forgive the pun.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: In my case, I belong
I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: I've never really understood the
The White House tapes, recording Nixon's nefarious doings from Watergate to the bombing of Vietnam, made frightening reading once made public on the orders of Congress.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: The White House tapes, recording
Looking back as an historian, I find myself having great respect for Ronald Reagan's consistency: his absolute conviction that the Soviet Union - the only competing world empire at the time - was bound to collapse!
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: Looking back as an historian,
Regularly, customers asked for a book on Greenwich, and there was none. After all, Elizabeth I was born there. The Observatory is known all over the world; the Royal Naval College is there. So I decided to do it.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: Regularly, customers asked for a
I belong to the Boston Biographers Group - and get my monthly 'fix' from them. Where else can I sit down for two hours with people who understand the challenge I face, daily, as a life-chronicler?
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: I belong to the Boston
The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already overcome great adversity in facing polio but who went on to take the reins of our armed forces in the greatest conflagration in human history - on our behalf.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: The story of FDR as
In publishing 'JFK: Reckless Youth' almost twenty years ago, I had gotten into trouble myself with the Kennedys. Not because of my portrait of JFK - which was highly laudatory - but because I had described his parents, Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, in less-than-flattering terms.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: In publishing 'JFK: Reckless Youth'
Republican isolationists had certainly tied the hands of every U.S. president, year after year - berating Franklin Roosevelt in particular and his attempts to ready the nation for inevitable attack.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: Republican isolationists had certainly tied
President Ford was taken for a ride by his predecessor, whom he unpardonably pardoned; Jimmy Carter was also taken for a ride, but by his successor, Ronald Reagan, over the return of the Iran hostages.
Nigel Hamilton Quotes: President Ford was taken for
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