Memory / Social Media

Is Ron Chernow's Ulysses S. Grant biography "OK"?

On October 15th, a tweet by Bunk contributing editor Kevin Levin touched off this fascinating exchange between several historians on the subject of popular history. Among the topics it covered were novelty, craft, context... and the musical Hamilton.

by William Hogeland, Kevin M. Levin, Megan Kate Nelson, T. J. Stiles, Josh Feigenbaum, Meghan Roberts, Brooks Simpson via Twitter on October 16, 2017

The cover of "Grant," the new biography of Ulysses S. Grant by Ron Chernow.

Penguin Press

Is it really okay, though, that people are publishing books (big, best-selling books) that don’t say anything new?
— Megan Kate Nelson (@megankatenelson) October 16, 2017

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