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"This is a wonderful study of autobiographies by historians. It is the first such book-length study, and it is composed with great analytic acuity and psychological insight.

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One of its many strengths is its sophisticated discussion of the recent theoretical literature on autobiography. Jeremy Popkin's method throughout is comparative, and his comparisons are ingenious." -- Paul Robinson ― Paul Robinson Published On: 2004-10-04

"Jeremy Popkin is like a physicist who, in order to study two phenomena, chooses to examine their point of intersection.

Autobiographies of historians are a sort of experimental object in which one can observe how each of these two undertakings—the act of writing history, and writing the history of that act—reveals what is specific to the one when it is disturbed by the other, and how the two are similar. Perhaps ego-history, promoted by Pierre Nora, was not as new as Nora believed.

What is new, on the other hand, is the analytical, perceptive, and se History, Historians, and Autobiography - Jeremy D. Popkin ... TIZYL