Nigel Hamilton
Professional Publications & Contributions
- The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942
- American Caesars: Lives of the Presidents, From Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush.
- Biography: A Brief History
- Montgomery: D-Day Commander
- Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency
- Bill Clinton: An American Journey
- JFK: Reckless Youth
- Monty: Final Years of the Field-Marshal, 1944-1976
- Master of the Battlefield: Monty's War Years
- Monty: The Making of a General
Additional Information
Nigel Hamilton is British-born, now a naturalized American biographer and historian. He is a recipient of the Whitbread Prize for Biography and the Templer Medal for Military History. Mr. Hamilton was elected as president of BIO (Biographers International Organization) and hosted its conferences at UMass Boston in May 2010 and 2014.
His latest work is the first of a two-volume study of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as U.S. Commander in Chief in World War II, The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941-1942, published in 2014. In 2010, Hamilton published American Caesars, a biography of the last twelve US presidents. He is perhaps best known for his biography on young John F. Kennedy, JFK: Reckless Youth (1992) which was made into a four-hour ABC mini-series the following year.
Hamilton is currently working on the second volume of the FDR biography, Commander in Chief: FDR at War, 1943-1945.