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Richard Brookhiser
Richard Brookhiser (/ˈbrʊkhaɪzər/; born February 23, 1955) is an American journalist, biographer, and historian. He is a senior editor at National Review. He is most widely known for a series of biographies of the Founding Fathers of the United States, including Alexander Hamilton, Gouverneur Morris, and George Washington.
Brookhiser was born in Irondequoit, a suburb north of Rochester, New York. His father worked for Eastman Kodak in Rochester and was a lieutenant in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He has written books that deal with the nation's founding and the principles of its founders, including What Would the Founders Do?, a book describing how the Founding Fathers would approach topical issues that generate controversy in modern-day America.
Brookhiser began writing for National Review in 1970. His first article, done on antiwar protests when he was 15 in high school, was a cover story in National Review in 1970. He earned an A.B. degree (1977) at Yale. In his freshman year he took a class on Thomas Jefferson taught by Garry Wills. He was also a member of the Calliopean Society. Although admitted to Yale Law School, Brookhiser went to work full-time for National Review in 1977; by the time he was 23, he was a senior editor, the youngest in the magazine's history. He was selected as the successor to the magazine's founder, William F. Buckley Jr., until Buckley changed his mind. For a short time he wrote speeches for Vice President George H. W. Bush.
He has written for a variety of magazines and newspapers. Brookhiser's work has appeared in the "Talk of the Town" section of The New Yorker magazine as well as in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, The Atlantic Monthly, Time, and Vanity Fair. In 1987 he began a column for The New York Observer, which he wrote until 2007.
Brookhiser wrote and hosted the documentary films Rediscovering George Washington, by Michael Pack, broadcast on PBS on July 4, 2002, and Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton, also by Pack, broadcast on PBS on April 11, 2011. His book Alexander Hamilton, American led to the "Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America" exhibition at The New-York Historical Society (2004–2005), for which he was the historian curator. He received an honorary doctorate degree in 2005 from Washington College.
In 2008, President George W. Bush awarded Brookhiser the National Humanities Medal in a White House ceremony.
Brookhiser became ill with testicular cancer in 1992 and smoked marijuana to alleviate nausea from chemotherapy. (Before that, he had smoked marijuana in college about ten times, he said.)
"Because of the marijuana, my last two courses of chemotherapy were almost nausea-free," he said in 1996. "My cancer is gone now. I was lucky."
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Richard Brookhiser
Richard Brookhiser (/ˈbrʊkhaɪzər/; born February 23, 1955) is an American journalist, biographer, and historian. He is a senior editor at National Review. He is most widely known for a series of biographies of the Founding Fathers of the United States, including Alexander Hamilton, Gouverneur Morris, and George Washington.
Brookhiser was born in Irondequoit, a suburb north of Rochester, New York. His father worked for Eastman Kodak in Rochester and was a lieutenant in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He has written books that deal with the nation's founding and the principles of its founders, including What Would the Founders Do?, a book describing how the Founding Fathers would approach topical issues that generate controversy in modern-day America.
Brookhiser began writing for National Review in 1970. His first article, done on antiwar protests when he was 15 in high school, was a cover story in National Review in 1970. He earned an A.B. degree (1977) at Yale. In his freshman year he took a class on Thomas Jefferson taught by Garry Wills. He was also a member of the Calliopean Society. Although admitted to Yale Law School, Brookhiser went to work full-time for National Review in 1977; by the time he was 23, he was a senior editor, the youngest in the magazine's history. He was selected as the successor to the magazine's founder, William F. Buckley Jr., until Buckley changed his mind. For a short time he wrote speeches for Vice President George H. W. Bush.
He has written for a variety of magazines and newspapers. Brookhiser's work has appeared in the "Talk of the Town" section of The New Yorker magazine as well as in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, The Atlantic Monthly, Time, and Vanity Fair. In 1987 he began a column for The New York Observer, which he wrote until 2007.
Brookhiser wrote and hosted the documentary films Rediscovering George Washington, by Michael Pack, broadcast on PBS on July 4, 2002, and Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton, also by Pack, broadcast on PBS on April 11, 2011. His book Alexander Hamilton, American led to the "Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America" exhibition at The New-York Historical Society (2004–2005), for which he was the historian curator. He received an honorary doctorate degree in 2005 from Washington College.
In 2008, President George W. Bush awarded Brookhiser the National Humanities Medal in a White House ceremony.
Brookhiser became ill with testicular cancer in 1992 and smoked marijuana to alleviate nausea from chemotherapy. (Before that, he had smoked marijuana in college about ten times, he said.)
"Because of the marijuana, my last two courses of chemotherapy were almost nausea-free," he said in 1996. "My cancer is gone now. I was lucky."
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