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Nigel Rees

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NIGEL HAMILTON In my case, I belong to a group of aspiring and practicing biographers in Boston. We meet once a mon...
NIGEL HAMILTON I became an American on Nov. 4, 2010, at an elegant ceremony in Great Hall of Bullfinch's Faneui...
NIGEL HAMILTON At times, the reader of World War II literature must think every American, from general to G.I., kep...
NIGEL HAMILTON For the serious biographer, history and the life story of a real individual are inseparably intertwi...
NIGEL HAMILTON The White House tapes, recording Nixon's nefarious doings from Watergate to the bombing of Vietn...
NIGEL HAMILTON As a student, I had stayed with Winston Churchill; later, I had lunched with Harold Macmillan - in f...
NIGEL HAMILTON President Ford was taken for a ride by his predecessor, whom he unpardonably pardoned; Jimmy Carter ...
NIGEL HAMILTON Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on...
NIGEL HAMILTON The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already ove...
NIGEL HAMILTON For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Phi...
NIGEL HAMILTON I once wrote that Lord Moran, Churchill's doctor, had doctored his diaries as well as his famous...
NIGEL HAMILTON Republican isolationists had certainly tied the hands of every U.S. president, year after year - ber...
NIGEL HAMILTON We've sweated and torn out our hair trying to reconstruct our chosen lives, to fashion them like...
NIGEL HAMILTON I believe I can lead this party from the front as a campaigning organization.
NIGEL FARAGE We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free.
NIGEL FARAGE I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best...
NIGEL MANSELL To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
NIGEL LAWSON Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
NIGEL SHORT I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rus...
NIGEL MANSELL Our only president who has died as U.S. commander in chief in war is Franklin Delano Roosevelt - who...
NIGEL HAMILTON Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia.
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