Enlightened Despot

• Occupation: writer
• Location: Pennsylvania : United States

About Me

This blogger runs both "Alexander Hamilton Speaks" and "Thomas Jefferson Speaks" on blogspot.com. Both blogs present opinions & ideas of these Founders which are probably not familiar to many Americans.

Interests

• American literature
• culture
• and history. European literature
• languages
• and history. Cycling.

Favorite Movies

• Diva
• Blow-Up
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• Judgment at Nurenberg
• Harold & Maude
• Master & Commander

Favorite Music

• composers: Bach
• Brahms
• Mozart
• Nielsen. Chamber music. The cello. Shostakovich. popular: Bob Dylan
• the Stones
• Radiohead

Favorite Books

• I'm currently reading Peter Gay's erudite two-volume intellectual history of the Enlightenment. (I'm well into volume 2.) I'm also working my way through Patrick O'Brian's sea novels.

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