Hamilton – I disagree with him much more than I agree with him. This book is very much a book about a father and a son. The father is painted as the bad guy, and the son is the good guy, struggling to break free. I don’t accept that interpretation, or that framework of analysis. Nonetheless, Hamilton writes with a verve, an electricity, a passion, that’s rare among academic historians. As a researcher, he’s extraordinary.
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David Nasaw
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center
United States · b. 1945
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American historian and biographer, author of The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst, Andrew Carnegie and The Patriarch, a life of Joseph P. Kennedy.
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