An Honourable Englishman: The Life of Hugh Trevor-Roper
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (614 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1400069769 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 672 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Superlative Ralph Blumenau A fascinating biography of the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914 to 2003). As a young man he was a remarkable mixture of a sharp, critical and versatile intellect, a witty and stylish writer, a waspish commentator on contemporaries, a heavy drinker of wine, with occasional oafish behaviour, and physically immensely energetic: he would go for long walks through countrysides to whose beauties he was always intensely sensitive; he rode to hounds with many a spill, one of which would eventually break his back in 1948 and put an end to that pu. Anson Cassel Mills said Fine biography of a fine historian. Rarely have I read such an enjoyable biography about a personality that I've found so distasteful. Sisman not only possesses considerable literary gifts, he knew Trevor-Roper personally, gained exclusive access to a treasure trove of primary sources, and was both willing and able to delineate his subject's strengths and weaknesses.Trevor-Roper was a fine historian whose instincts were usually more correct than politically correct. He could be generous with his better students, and to a certain extent he mellowed with age. As Sisman emphas. "Wonderful biography of historian Hugh Trevor-Roper" according to Jill Meyer. Adam Sisman has written "An Honourable Englishman: The Life of Hugh Trevor-Roper". It's not a short book and it's definitely written for the reader who has an inordinate interest in both history and History Lecturers. In other words, a history-jock, like me.Hugh Trevor-Roper was the writer of both popular history and more academic history. By "popular" history, I mean work that is aimed at the interested amateur history readers out there. His second book - and one that brought him the most fame, was "The Last Days of Hitler", which we wro
Now this superb biography of Hugh Trevor-Roper, universally acclaimed overseas, makes its anticipated American debut.With incisive knowledge of the man and access to never-before-published letters, Adam Sisman paints a fascinating portrait of this charismatic, contentious, contradictory character. Finally, An Honourable Englishman reveals the truth behind his public substantiation of the false Hitler diaries in 1983, a misstep (encouraged by his impatient employer Rupert Murdoch) that forever tainted his reputation.Profoundly bright and brutally acerbic, Hugh Trevor-Roper was a
Taylor, savors, as he makes us savor, a parade of juicy stories about his subject’s life and career.”—Publishers Weekly“By miles the best biography I have read this year.”—Max Hastings“A perfect biography.”—Robert Harris, The Sunday Times (London) “How lucky for Hugh Trevor-Roper, and for us, that the ideal biographer was here. I’d read him on anyone.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times “It’s easy to recommend this superb biography of the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003) as one of the best books of the year. “It’s an excellent book: crisp and merciless yet funny and full of sympathy. The book as a whole is masterful.”—Jeffrey Collins, The New Criterion “Empathetic, illuminating.”—Kirkus Reviews&
Adam Sisman’s first book was a biography of Trevor-Roper’s rival A. He has also written Boswell’s Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. . Taylor. Johnson (winner of the National Books Critics Circle award for biography) and The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge. P. J