Past and Present
Gerard DeGrootRiffing on the lessons we might learn from history, but probably won't.
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The End
Back in the 1990s, while working at the University of St Andrews, I caught a student committing plagiarism. It was actually pretty easy; he wrote his senior thesis about General Douglas Haig, about whom I’d written my first book. Huge secti...
A Story of Love and Murder
Ludwik and Mirjam at their wedding in London
It’s the weekend, when I like to dig through my digital archives and reprise a review I’ve written of a book that really moved me. Today I’m featuring Daniel Finkelstein’s Hitler, Stalin, Mum an...
When Will They Ever Learn?
‘We need some great failures’, argued Lincoln Steffens, the famous muckraking journalist of the Progressive Era. ‘Especially we ever-successful Americans – conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.’
By any standard, the Vietnam War wa...
Epitaph on the Seventies
JR and Bobby in Dallas — greed and mendacity were suddenly fun
I’m feeling a little nostalgic today. That happens to me a lot lately—a consequence, I suppose, of growing old. But it’s compounded by the fact that Sharon and Josh left for th...
Sawdust Caesars
On the morning of 17 May 1964, a gang of youths suddenly started breaking the windows of a trackside buffet at the Margate railway station. ‘The boy who started it was so good looking and nicely dressed’, the manageress subsequently remarke...
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Historian, journalist, and crazy dog lover living in St Andrews, Scotland. Once wrote a lot of books, now a book critic for The Times and others. In my other life I make and fix things. People tell me that I'm a great cook. Friends call me Jerry.
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