Writing Biography: Historians and Their Craft
by Lloyd E. Ambrosius (editor) · Lloyd E. Ambrosius
Six essays by practising historians, drawn from a University of Nebraska symposium, on the biographer's relationship to the subject, cultural framing of a life, and working from scarce documents. Shows how biography serves as a tool of historical analysis.
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