NYT interviews Rick Perlstein about his book
See more at: http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/156770
“….What was the last truly great book you read? … A volume
of Chekhov’s short stories. I don’t read many popular histories like the ones I
write. The building blocks for my research are scholarly monographs, and the
inspiration for my storytelling style are folks like Chekhov. His masterful
long short story “A Woman’s Kingdom,” about a forlorn heiress saddled against
her will with the job of running the family business, precisely exemplifies
what I’m aiming to accomplish in my history writing: to sympathetically
reimagine the points of view of people from all genders, ideologies and social
identities...
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