William hogeland biography
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Born in Virginia and raised in Brooklyn, New York, William Hogeland is the author of the narrative-history trilogy Wild Early Republic — The Whiskey Rebellion (Simon and Schuster), Declaration (Simon and Schuster), and Autumn of the Black Snake (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) — as well as the expository work Founding Finance (University of Texas Press) and a collection of essays, Inventing American History (Boston Review Books/MIT Press). His next book, on Alexander Hamilton’s national finance plan, is beneath contract to Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Hogeland’s work in founding American history reflects his interest in blending character-driven drama with critical interpretation. Sharply dissenting from the mode sometimes called “founder chic,” his books unearth stories of founding conflicts that are little discussed, precisely because they’re elemental, sometimes to uncomfortable degrees.
Written in an accessible style for general
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HOGELAND'S BAD HISTORY
It’s BAD HISTORY! where the strangely reassuring meets the deeply unsettling. After the terrorist attacks of , I began digging into an American past more conflicted—and conflicted about more things—than we often want to know. Amid current political crises, I need that kind of perspective more than ever. In this newsletter, I’ll explore the history I’ve found and keep finding, in hopes of helping both you and me put the turmoil we’re going through in the context of what the country’s gone through before. Things can get hair-raising, but also entertaining (otherwise, I wouldn’t do it). I’ll be telling strange stories about race. Class. War. Money. Law. Religion. Uprisings and crackdowns. Political chicanery. Offbeat characters: sometimes villains, more rarely heroes. Also sometimes American roots music, the strange nature of nonfiction, and related matters. The free posts will give you the flavor of where I’m going with all this.
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William Hogeland's latest book is "The Hamilton Scheme," published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in May Born in Virginia and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Hogeland is the author of the trilogy "The Whiskey Rebellion" (Simon and Schuster), "Declaration" (S&S), and "Autumn of the Black Snake" (FSG); as well as "Founding Finance" (University of Texas Press) and a collection of essays, "Inventing American History" (Boston Review Books/MIT Press). Hogeland contributed the chapter on insurrections to "A Blackwell Companion to American Military History" and has written about history, music, and politics for "The Atlantic," "AlterNet," "Salon," "Slate," "The New York Times," "Boston Review," "The Huffington Post," and many others. His essay "American Dreamers" appears in Da Capo's "Best Music Writing ," edited by Greil M