"Regularly, customers asked for a book on Greenwich, and there was none. After all, Elizabeth I was b..." — Nigel Hamilton

I am all for charity in judging the men who have occupied the Oval Office over the past seventy years, given the huge responsibilities the president carries across the world.

I belong to the Boston Biographers Group - and get my monthly 'fix' from them. Where else can I sit down for two hours with people who understand the challenge I face, daily, as a life-chronicler?

Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia.

Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our species.