Nigel Hamilton

For the serious biographer, history and the life story of a real individual are inseparably intertwined. Get the facts wrong, or distort them, and the life story gets distorted: becomes fiction.

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These are some quotes by British author Nigel Hamilton Author, who was born on February 16, 1944.

Quotes by Nigel Hamilton

Since his inauguration in 2009, President Obama has upheld FDR's vision of America as a nation that keeps its word - a nation still committed to uphold the 'four freedoms' that President Roosevelt set down in the great Atlantic Charter of August 1941.

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For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines would not die in vain.

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To be sure, administrations since Ronald Reagan had gone out of their way to massage and 'spin' news to the president's advantage, while the media did its best to un-spin it.

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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

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To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.

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