Ambitious Quote by Nigel Hamilton

[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to…

— Abraham Lincoln

Jarecki's 'Reagan' is a compellingly watchable and appropriately conflicted portrait...artfully nuanced and intellectually curious.

— Hank Stuever

“The idea that the president has the power to craft a new strategy both overstates his power and understates the power of reality crafted…

— George Friedman

“What is novel is a president who wishes to maintain, while in office, a personal security force which during his campaign used force against…

— Timothy Snyder

Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of…

— H. L. Mencken

“He embodied an enduring archetype: the obscure immigrant who comes to America, re-creates himself, and succeeds despite a lack of proper birth and breeding.”

— Ron Chernow

“The whole political mess, the universal squalor, the essential pettiness of mankind oppressed him and he’d submerged himself in work and writing and books.”

— Laird Barron

“Therefore, it is in our mutual interests to cause unrest and chaos within America. The new American president is a weak man.”

— Tom Clancy

“He thought of his own by-now legendary novel, American Disillusionment, that cyclone which, for years, had woven its erratic path across the flatlands of…

— Michael Chabon

Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.

— Mason Cooley

“Man's history is being shaped according to the difficulties it encounters.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

I've admired Bill Kauffman's books for years . . . appealing, elegantly written, and entirely American.

— Howard Frank Mosher