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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’ve never really understood the term ‘Post-Impressionism’ as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh. Nigel Hamilton Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just east of London. Nigel Hamilton Read Quote
