CSPAN QA Ron Chernow November 6, 2017
That way in your book . Mr. Chernow when i started working on the book i read it to i ran into a friend who said to me, how can you write a great biography of someone who wrote a great autobiography . That stopped me in my tracks and i thought about that comment for many days. Then i realized that it actually helped to define the direction of my book because i realized that what my job was to do as a biographer was to zero in on the silences and the evasions. It is not really a biography. It is not really an autobiography. It covers the mexican war and the civil war. I ended up zeroing in on t...
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