Ask the Author: Philip Padgett
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Philip Padgett
In writing about historical events, I find that discovering a good story with underappreciated principal characters and then telling that story as best I can to sharpen our understanding of the past is tremendously satisfying.
Philip Padgett
You mean besides the shiny side of the carbon paper faces away from you? Fix on the topic about which you are passionate. Writing runs on a long, sometimes frustrating path. Your passion can sustain you. Seek and listen to advice, but don't let the "it's too hard for you" gremlins take over your decisions - especially that gremlin inside your head.
Philip Padgett
My father loved history and my mother was a writer. It all rubbed off on me.
Philip Padgett
When I was a teenager, I spent three summers canoeing in northern Ontario, Canada. The landmark for our put-in was a small monument that commemorated a fishing trip by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the same waters in 1943 not long before critical meetings with Churchill in Hyde Park, NY, and Quebec. Throughout my career in national security analysis, I would occasionally wonder, how was it that FDR could leave a wartime capital - secretly - at a critical time to go fishing 760 miles away? With retirement and in search of the answer, I started following the evidence. It led to a fascinating story.
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