American - Historian | August 7, 1953 -
Some years ago, I read Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution, and I was very taken by the way he told the story, and it seemed as though I was right in the middle of things. And it took me a while to figure out how he achieved that effect, and one of the ways was to write it in the present tense.
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I've been writing big stories of history, but there are a lot of fascinating little stories.
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If it's a good story, it's a good story, and it draws readers in.
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When a president was elected with foreign policy experience, it was usually less about his foreign policy experience than other things.
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