Adam Sisman's first book was a biography of Trevor-Roper's rival A. J. P. Taylor. He has also written "Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson" (winner of the National Books Critics Circle award for biography) and "The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge."
"It's an excellent book: crisp and merciless yet funny and full of
sympathy. . . . Mr. Sisman has an ideal biographical style
inquisitive and open, serious yet not severe. I'd read him on
anyone."--Dwight Garner, "The New York Times"
"It's easy to recommend this superb biography of the historian Hugh
Trevor-Roper (1914-2003) as one of the best books of the year. . .
. Every page offers high-order literary entertainment. . . .
Detailed, funny and beautifully paced, "An Honourable Englishman"
is one of the fullest and most intelligent biographies of a modern
scholar ever written. Its readers are in for a treat."--Michael
Dirda, "The Washington Post"
"A marvelous evocation of man, place and time."--Norman Stone, "The
Wall Street Journal"
"Excellent."--G.W. Bowersock, "The New York Review of Books"
"An excellent biography, thorough and measured."--Anthony Grafton,
"New Republic"
"Superb . . . lucid and engaging."--Jacob Heilbrunn, "National
Interest"
"First-rate . . . Sisman's narrative of this disaster proceeds in
tick-tock style and with all of the suspense of a detective novel.
The tale is hard to read without cringing, but impossible to put
down. The book as a whole is masterful."--Jeffrey Collins, "The New
Criterion"
"Empathetic, illuminating."--"Kirkus Reviews"
"This superb biography romps through the life of one of
20th-century Britain's most notorious, controversial, and
influential historian-journalists. . . . Using
never-before-exploited resources, NBCC award-winner Sisman, the
much-praised biographer of Trevor-Roper's fellow historian and
competitor, A.J.P. Taylor, savors, as he makes us savor, a parade
of juicy stories about his subject's life and career."--"Publishers
Weekly"
"By miles the best biography I have read this year."--Max
Hastings
"A perfect biography."--Robert Harris, "The Sunday Times
"(London)
"How lucky for [Hugh] Trevor-Roper, and for us, that the ideal
bi
"An excellent biography, thorough and measured."--Anthony Grafton,
New Republic
"Superb....lucid and engaging." --Jacob Heilbrunn, National
Interest
"First-rate.... Sisman's narrative of this disaster proceeds in
tick-tock style and with all of the suspense of a detective novel.
The tale is hard to read without cringing, but impossible to put
down. The book as a whole is masterful." --Jeffrey Collins, New
Criterion
"Empathetic, illuminating..."--Kirkus Reviews
"This superb biography romps through the life of one of
20th-century Britain's most notorious, controversial, and
influential historian-journalists. ...Using never-before-exploited
resources, NBCC award-winner Sisman, the much-praised biographer of
Trevor-Roper's fellow historian and competitor, A.J.P. Taylor,
savors, as he makes us savor, a parade of juicy stories about his
subject's life and career." --Publishers Weekly
"By miles the best biography I have read this year."--Max
Hastings
"By miles the best biography I have read this year."--Max
Hastings
"A perfect biography."--Robert Harris, "The Sunday Times
"(London)
"How lucky for Hugh Trevor-Roper, and for us, that the ideal
biographer was here. It is impossible to praise Sisman's book too
highly."--A. N. Wilson, "The Observer"
"This is a fine and serious biography which, on page after page,
has made me laugh out loud."--Noel Malcolm, "The Sunday
Telegraph"
"I was completely beguiled by Adam Sisman's "An Honourable
Englishman"."--D. J. Taylor, "New Statesman"
"A veritable treasure trove for connoisseurs of academic intrigue,
duplicity, arrogance and hubris."--Tom Devine, "The Glasgow
Herald"
"Superb . . . surpassed anything I read this year."--James McGuire,
"Irish Times"
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