A few years ago I talked about a book that I found myself really enjoying. It was Gore Vidal’s Burr, an entry in his long-running Narratives of Empire series which sought to create historical fiction tales about various important moments in American history. The series blended real-life and fictitious characters to […]
I’ve mentioned before that I’m a huge fan of history. And that passion has only been growing lately as I’ve been dealing with a pretty strong obsession with the spectacular soundtrack to the Broadway smash Hamilton. Thanks to Hamilton I’ve gotten a whole lot more history books loaded […]
I really love history. I think it’s because I love stories, and consider myself an attempted storyteller, and history s just stories. That’s all it really is. You can bury yourself in historical documents and biographies, but in the end, its all stories. Unless we lived it, we […]