CSPAN3 Key Capitol Hill Hearings October 15, 2015
You are immediately drawn, as a young person, i think, to want to write something new, to revise history, not to make it untrue, but to Say Something that people havent said before about the elections, about president ial scholarship, about history in general. That you want to reinterpret what was an orthodox view. Thats what i did with my first really bad book, that was published in 1985. It was as henry said, a well, it was my dissertation, i didnt even revise it too much. I was really in a hurry to get it in print. It was on the president ial election of 1952, entitled the crusade. What i w...