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Richard Brookhiser (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 America's founders, including Alexander Hamilton, Gouverneur Morris, and George Washington. ==Life and career== Brookhiser was born in Irondequoit, a suburb north of Rochester, New York.〔 Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC Document Number: H1000111697 〕 His father worked for Eastman Kodak in Rochester and was a lieutenant in the Army Air Corps during World War II.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=See, now they vanish, the faces and places )〕 He has written books that deal either with the nation's founding, or the principles of America's 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. "My first article, on antiwar protests in my high school, was a cover story in ''National Review'' in 1970, when I was 15." 〔 Biography page of Mr. Brookhiser's website. 〕 He earned an A.B. degree (1977) at Yale,〔 where he was active in the Yale Political Union as a member and sometime Chairman of the Party of the Right. In his freshman year he took a class on Thomas Jefferson taught by Garry Wills. 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, until Buckley ultimately 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 both 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. He was historian curator of the exhibition "Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America", at The New-York Historical Society (2004–2005). 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Brookhiser」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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