American Caesars
| Author: | Nigel Hamilton |
| Category: | Non-Fiction |
| UK Publisher: | Bodley Head |
| UK Publication Date: | [01/07/10] |
A biography of the twelve caesars of our time: the American presidents from Franklin d.Roosevelt to George W.Bush.
One of The Times' Books of the Year.
Dan Jones, The Times, 20.11.10
'This is an excellent journey through recent American history, which serves another of history's most fundamental purposes: to help us better understand the present through the past'.
Peter Preston, the Guardan, 24.07.10
'This is a delight of a summer book: history for the beach, politics for the deckchair, and a waspish entertainment come rain or shine...he hasn't produced one dull essay in twelve'.
Author: Nigel Hamilton
Nigel Hamilton was born in 1944, and studied history at Cambridge University. His first major biography, The Brothers Mann, was critically acclaimed both in Britain and the USA, and widely translated. Monty, the first of his three-volume official life of ...