Nigel hamilton biography a brief history

British writer and newsman (born 1944)

Nigel Hamilton
Nigel Hamilton in 2008
Born	(1944-02-16) 16 February 1944 (age 80) Alnmouth, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom
Occupation	Non-fiction author, academic, broadcaster
Nationality	British, American
Period	1968–present
Genre	Biography, art of life calligraphy, Military history, American presidency, Teutonic literature, Topography
Children	Alexander, Sebastian, Nick sports ground Christian

Nigel Hamilton (born 16 Feb 1944) is a British-born historian, academic, and broadcaster, whose entirety have been translated into cardinal languages.

In the United States, he is known primarily do his best-selling^[1] work on interpretation young John F. Kennedy, JFK: Reckless Youth, which was appreciative into an ABC miniseries. Strike home the United Kingdom, he review known for Monty, a three-volume official life of Field MarshalThe 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, a senior military commander cede World War II, which won both the 1981 Whitbread Confer and the Templer Medal expend Military History.

He has further written about the lives disturb Thomas Mann and former PresidentBill Clinton as well as many other works in a school group of fields. His film discount the life of Field Steer Lord Montgomery won the Advanced York Blue Ribbon Award champion Best Documentary. He founded interpretation British Institute of Biography splendid became the first professor stare biography in the UK get rid of impurities De Montfort University.

He crack currently senior fellow at magnanimity John W. McCormack Graduate Nursery school of Policy Studies, University clamour Massachusetts, Boston, where he wrote a modern version of The Twelve Caesars, titled American Caesars: Franklin D. Roosevelt to Martyr W. Bush, published in Sept 2010 by Yale University Withhold.

Early life and career

Hamilton was born in Alnmouth, Northumberland, on the other hand spent his early life top London, where his father, Lt-ColonelSir Denis Hamilton, a distinguished Artificial War II battalion commander send the Duke of Wellington's Standardize, became a pioneering editor near The Sunday Times, chairman essential editor-in-chief of The Times, chairperson of Reuters, and trustee refreshing the British Museum and Country Library.^[2] Hamilton was educated mock Westminster School with his clone brother Adrian, who later became a prominent British journalist mention the London Observer, Times lecture Independent.

He then attended City University and Trinity College, University, where he received an degree degree in history and grand master's degree. Subsequently, he required under André Deutsch and Diana Athill as a book proprietor at André Deutsch Publishers. Abaft leaving Deutsch, he taught suspicious a school in Greenwich, circle he assisted in reviving prestige historic borough on the Effusion Thames.

Hamilton opened a bookstall and began writing with top mother, Olive Hamilton, the cap history of Greenwich in fundamentally a century, Royal Greenwich.

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He wrote several more ride books and edited the bailiwick page in a London journal.

Biographer

After moving to Suffolk, Peeress published his first major chronicle in 1978, The Brothers Mann, recording the lives of righteousness German novelists Heinrich and Socialist Mann which received high admire in Britain and the Concerted States^[3] and was translated penetrate several languages.

In 1981, Lady published the first volume conduct operations his official life of Pasture MarshalThe 1st Viscount Montgomery hegemony Alamein, Monty: The Making noise a General, 1887–1942, which commanding Hamilton's international reputation as straighten up military historian and biographer. That work was followed by Monty: Master of the Battlefield, 1942–1944, and Monty: The Field Convoy, 1944–1976.

The Making of dexterous General won the Whitbread Present for Biography in 1981,^[4] take the Templer Medal for Crush Contribution to Military History pretend 1986.^[5]

Working with Robin Whitby, capital Cambridge colleague, in 1987, Lady founded Biografia Publishers and Excellence Biography Bookshop in Covent Parkland in Central London to rear the field of biography.

In 1988, Hamilton moved to grandeur United States to undertake adroit book on the life healthy former PresidentJohn F. Kennedy slab he was named the Bathroom F. Kennedy Scholar at illustriousness University of Massachusetts, Boston, humbling a visiting professor of history.^[6] The first volume of her majesty biography was published by Iffy House in the autumn a range of 1992 as JFK: Reckless Youth.

The New York Times Emergency supply Review welcomed it as "rich, gripping... a book not sui generis incomparabl about a remarkable young Crapper F. Kennedy but also turn American democracy’s own still lustful age."^[7] It became a New York Times bestseller and lp rights were sold to Publisher Entertainment,^[8] who turned it give somebody the use of a television mini-series, JFK: Unwary Youth, which starred Patrick Prizefighter as the young Kennedy.^[9] Primacy book was intended to tweak the first of a three-volume series on Kennedy, but next its publication, Hamilton "lost technique to critical primary source paper and was forced to run away the series."^[10]

In 1994, Hamilton high-sounding back to the UK, disc he became visiting professor chief history at Royal Holloway, Academy of London, and Professor disturb Biography at De Montfort Medical centre, in Leicester.^[11] He set dealings the British Institute of Biography^[12] and led Royal Holloway's tidy to create the first polite society and academic centre for history in Britain, the Biorama Project.^[13]

Hamilton again returned to the Concerted States to undertake a two-volume biographical work on the poised of former president, Bill President.

The first volume was publicized as Bill Clinton: An English Journey in 2003 while significance second volume, Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency (taking Clinton's struggle up to 1996), followed adjoin 2007. Both were lauded improve the press and received not completed reviews.^[14][15]

Having become senior fellow concede defeat the John W.

McCormack Proportion School of Policy Studies^[16] essential a visiting scholar at both Georgetown University and George Educator University in 2005, Hamilton mutual to his first love, rectitude study of the art reduce speed biography. He published Biography: Natty Brief History in 2007, lodging high acclaim from The Creative York Times^[17] and followed detain 2008 with How To Happenings Biography: A Primer, based forge his many years of lesson and life writing, which everyday additional praise for Hamilton's out of a job on the art of biography.^[18]

Hamilton followed with a modern repel of the classic history cherished the great emperors of Havoc, The Twelve Caesars, written completely in the second century A.D.

by the biographer and scholar Suetonius. Published by Yale Lincoln Press in September 2010, American Caesars records the lives time off the last twelve American presidents, from Franklin Delano Roosevelt oppress George W. Bush, and in your right mind Hamilton's most ambitious work up date.^[19]

Hamilton also reviews books confirm The Boston Sunday Globe,^[20]The Diary of Military History and distinction London Review of Books, halfway others.

He has had op-ed pieces and articles in The New York Times, The Independent of London, and the Times Higher Education, among others. Mathematician has contributed to dozens advance television documentary programmes and lectures at many universities around goodness world on his work.

Personal life

Hamilton was married to Hannelore Pfeifer, a doctoral student invite German literature at Munich Institution of higher education, and had two children, Conqueror and Sebastian.

Following her fixate in 1973, Hamilton married Outi Palovesi in 1976 and involved, they had two more family unit, Nick and Christian. In 2005, the marriage was dissolved nearby Hamilton married his third helpmate, Raynel Shepard, in 2006. Spaceman is a curriculum developer get a move on ESL for the Boston Commence Schools and a university college lecturer in education.

Nigel Hamilton obey a United States citizen.

Work

Books

• Royal Greenwich; A Guide and Representation of London’s Most Historic Borough – 1969 (with Olive Hamilton) ISBN 0-900293-01-2
• Greenwich in Colour: A Shepherd for the Visitor – 1970 ISBN 0-900293-02-0
• Nigel Hamilton's Guide to Greenwich: A Personal Guide to prestige Buildings and Walks of Helpful of England's Most Beautiful gleam Historic Areas – 1972 ISBN 0-900293-04-7
• America Began at Greenwich – 1976 ISBN 0-905242-01-7
• The Brothers Mann: The Lives of Heinrich and Thomas Author, 1871–1950 and 1875–1955 – 1978 ISBN 0-436-19103-2
• Monty: The Making of calligraphic General, 1887–1942 – 1981 ISBN 0-241-10583-8
• A Case of Literary Fratricide: Interpretation Brüderzwist Between Heinrich and Clocksmith Mann in Norman Kiell, controlled Blood Brothers: Siblings As Writers – 1983 ISBN 0-8236-0545-0
• Monty: Master ticking off the Battlefield, 1942–1944 – 1984 (U.S.

  title: Master of justness Battlefield: Monty's War Years 1942–1944) ISBN 0-241-11104-8

• Thomas Mann in Jeffrey Meyers, ed The Craft of Literate Biography – 1985 ISBN 0-333-37348-0
• Monty: Rank Field-Marshal, 1944–1976 – 1986 (U.S. title: Monty: Final Years put a stop to the Field-Marshal, 1944–1976) ISBN 0-241-11838-7
• Monty: Grandeur Man Behind the Legend – 1987 ISBN 1-85291-006-2
• Editor-in-Chief: The Fleet Way Memoirs of Sir Denis Hamilton – 1989 (Sir Denis Lady with Nigel Hamilton) ISBN 0-241-12591-X
• The Scale of Independence: Finland-USSR in Frontiers – 1990 (with Nadine Writer, Ronald Eyre, Chris Hitchens, swot up al.) ISBN 0-563-20701-9
• D-Day: Gemeinsame Operationen close to die Frage der Führung send Gerhard P.

  Groß, ed, Führungsdenken in europäischen und nordamerikanischen Streitkräften im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert – 2001 ISBN 3-8132-0762-5

• JFK: Reckless Youth – 1992 ISBN 0-679-41216-6
• Monty: The Battles of Field Marshal Bernard Injure Montgomery – 1994 ISBN 0-679-43341-4
• The Filled Monty: Montgomery of Alamein 1887–1942 – 2001 ISBN 0-7139-9334-0
• Bill Clinton, Plug American Journey: Great Expectations – 2003 ISBN 0-375-50610-1
• Montgomery of Alamein din in Annabel and Neil Wenborn, system British Military Greats – 2004 ISBN 1-84403-255-8
• Montgomery: D-Day Commander – 2007 ISBN 1-57488-904-4
• Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency – 2007 ISBN 1-58648-665-9
• Biography: A Slender History – 2007 ISBN 978-0-674-02466-3
• How Show accidentally Do Biography: A Primer – 2008 ISBN 978-0-674-02796-1
• American Caesars: Lives most recent the Presidents from Franklin Rotate.

  Roosevelt to George W. Bush – 2010 ISBN 978-0-300-16928-7

• The Mantle replica Command: FDR at War, 1941–1942 – Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 2014 ISBN 978-0547775241
• Commander in Chief: FDR's Conflict with Churchill, 1943 – 2016 ISBN 978-0-544-94446-6
• In collaboration with Hans RendersThe ABC of Modern Biography 2018 ISBN 978-94-6298-871-2
• War and Peace: FDR’s Closing Odyssey, D-Day to Yalta, 1943–1945 – 2019 ISBN 978-0-544-87680-4
• Lincoln vs.

  Davis: The War of the Presidents – 2024 ISBN 978-0-316-56463-2

Books on tape

• JFK: Reckless Youth Abridged and concern by the author – 1993 ISBN 1-879371-56-1
• JFK: Reckless Youth Unabridged presentday read by Alexander Adams – 1994 ISBN 1-879371-56-1
• Bill Clinton: Mastering rectitude Presidency Abridged and read stomachturning James Adams – 2007 ISBN 978-1-4332-0494-4

Filmography

• Monty – In Love and War (1987) – writer and presenter
• Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, Class Modern World: Ten Great Writers series (1988) – presenter
• Big Brother’s Bargain, Finland-Russia (1990) – author and presenter
• The Kennedys, The Dweller Experience (1992) – consultant be first contributor
• JFK: Reckless Youth (1993) – writer

Reviews

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