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I was quite bowled over by Isabel Wilkerson's masterly saga, 'The Warmth of Other Suns.'

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I felt blessed by the existence of Horace Porter's 'Campaigning With Grant.'

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It's a shameful thing to admit for someone who writes such long books, but I read so slowly that I almost subvocalize.

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I always sympathize with people who complain about the length of my books. It would take me a year to get through one of them.

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There were 900 books on Washington when I began writing on him.

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Hamilton was extremely combative. Not only was he combative, but he also overreacted to anything he perceived as a threat or a criticism.

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Hamilton had a certain social versatility, and in a way, that is understandable because he's someone who rises up from the lowest rungs of society and then scales the top. And he gets to know people from every strata along the way.

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The thing with all the Founding Fathers, one of the most common words they used was 'posterity.' They were constantly referring to posterity.

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Every time I wrote fiction, I was discouraged, and every time I wrote nonfiction, I was encouraged.

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Strange as it may seem, George Washington's life has now been so minutely documented that we know far more about him than did his own friends, family, and contemporaries.

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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