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My father had left school at 18, without enough money to go to college - and, with four sons after the war, said he could still not afford to do so.

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Bad reviews are the bane of an author's post-publication existence.

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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.'

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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.

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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.

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I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh.

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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.

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After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just east of London.

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: February 16th, 1944

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