In it's semi-regular feature "History Doyens," History News Network this week focuses on
Alonzo Hamby. Lon was my PhD advisor and I am now lucky to count him as a close friend and mentor. Go read (or re-read)
Man of the People, Liberalism and It's Challengers, For the Survival of Democracy (I was his research assistant on
Survival for two years) or any of his other vitally important works.
Davcid McCullough is a wonderful writer. Alonzo Hamby is a wonderful historian. And Hamby can also write. One of the great moments for historians in pop culture is when MoTP appeared in West Wing as a book President Bartlett was holding and presumably reading during one episode a few years back.
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