I have been writing about politicians, living and dead, for most of my life.
My first article, on antiwar protests in my high school, was a cover story
in National Review in 1970, when I was 15. I went to work for the magazine
full time in 1977, and have been there ever since. In 1987, I began writing
a column for The New York Observer. I have written for many other magazines,
from The Atlantic Monthly to Cosmopolitan, covering everything from the fall
of Communism to Monica Lewinsky.
In 1996, I published my first biography, Founding Father: Rediscovering George
Washington. Joseph J. Ellis, reviewing it for The New York Times Book Review,
said it belonged “on the same shelf with Plutarch.” Four more books on the
founders followed (see Books).
I wrote and hosted Rediscovering George Washington,
a film by Michael Pack, which aired on PBS on July 4, 2002. I was historian
curator of “Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America,” an exhibition
at The New-York Historical Society (2004-5). In 2005 I was named a Doctor of
Letters, honoris causa, by Washington College. Most recently, I wrote What
Would the Founders Do? Our Questions, Their Answers (Basic Books)—a perfect
topic, considering how well we know each other. Buy the book, and the T-shirt.
— Rick
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