First published 1998
James Thomas Flexner spent over sixty years writing for newspapers, magazines, and television. He began his career at the New York Herald Tribune after Harvard, then became a distinguished American historian. This collection brings together his diverse literary work from major publications including Esquire Magazine, Time, The New York Times, Travel and Leisure, and TV Guide. Flexner wrote twenty-six books on American history and art, most famously a four-volume George Washington biography. Here readers discover his range as columnist, reviewer, lecturer, and fiction writer. The anthology includes his essay connecting George Washington to Watergate and pieces on biographical writing. These samples reveal how Flexner developed his accessible style that appeals to both scholars and general readers. The collection spans his entire career, showing his evolution from newspaper reporter to America's leading historians.
Genres: biography, history, 20th-century, american, non-fiction, biography-memoir, american-history
Vibes: accessible, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: accessible-writing, scholarly-work
Setting: New York, Harvard
Period: 20th-century
339 pages · Hardcover · Fordham University Press