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" I'm not promising to write 'JFK 2' - but one day, I might! "
Nigel Hamilton
Promising
Day
Might
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" 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
Iran
He
President
" Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia. "
Nigel Hamilton
Academia
Orphan
Biography
" After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just east of London. "
Nigel Hamilton
Taught
University
London
" The moral was, in time of anarchy, tough leadership is the only solution - even though the collateral damage may be heartbreaking. Mrs. Thatcher's strident, take-no prisoners approach was in some ways repugnant, but it was surely necessary. "
Nigel Hamilton
Time
Moral
Solution
" 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
Group
Daily
Face
" 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
I Am
Charity
Judging
" 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
Politics
American
Heart
" What George W. Bush learned in his pre-presidential years - and what he omits in his new memoirs - was not how to lead a nation, but how, with sufficient toughness, to cheat the democratic system to get elected. "
Nigel Hamilton
New
System
Toughness
" I became an American on Nov. 4, 2010, at an elegant ceremony in Great Hall of Bullfinch's Faneuil Hall, Boston, beneath a vast painting of Daniel Webster debating the preservation of the Union with Robert Hayne of South Carolina, before the Civil War. "
Nigel Hamilton
American
Painting
War
" To be sure, administrations since Ronald Reagan had gone out of their way to massage and 'spin' news to the president's advantage, while the media did its best to un-spin it. "
Nigel Hamilton
Massage
Media
News
" Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude. "
Nigel Hamilton
Time
Thanksgiving
Gratitude
" Bad reviews are the bane of an author's post-publication existence. "
Nigel Hamilton
Reviews
Bane
Existence
" 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
America
Vision
Nation
" 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
Fabric
Become
Social
" 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
Story
Facts
History
" 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
World
American
Think
" Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our species. "
Nigel Hamilton
Ways
Survival
Most
" 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
World
Born
Royal
" I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh. "
Nigel Hamilton
More
Than
Understood
" 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
Words
London
Tie
" 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
War
Birthday
Day
" 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
Respect
World
Time
" 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
Doctor
Daily
Famous
" My father had risen in the British Army under the revolutionary aegis of General Montgomery, who was mad about training for battle, not muddling into disaster. "
Nigel Hamilton
Battle
Army
Who
" 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
War
Story
History
" President Gerald Ford was no intellectual, but he had served with distinction in combat as a naval gunnery officer and then as Congressman for a quarter century. "
Nigel Hamilton
Quarter
Intellectual
Combat
" Dwight D. Eisenhower, in my judgment, will go down in history as one of the four 'great' presidents since the U.S. reluctantly became an empire in World War II; Richard Nixon as the nearest to a sociopath by the time he was compelled to resign. "
Nigel Hamilton
Great
Down
World
" 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
Some
American
Daring
" 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
Sex
Determination
History
" 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
Year
Hands
Nation