"Another damned thick heavy book!"

Notes on Narrative vs. Argument in Writing History

“Scribble, scribble, scribble—eh, Mr. Gibbon?”

1. The Hamilton Scheme, my book forthcoming at the end of May—you can pre-order, and please tell your friends about it, constantly, if possible—is a narrative work, in keeping with its subtitle, “An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the American Founding,” which is unusually accurate. Publishers of abstract, tech…