What the critics are saying about Eric Burns
Someone to Watch Over Me: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Tortured Father Who Shaped Her Life
“Burns’s work is captivating, suspenseful, and heartbreaking; this is how biographies should be written.”
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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1920: The Year That Made the Decade Roar
“One of the best nonfiction books of 2015.”
Kirkus Reviews
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The Smoke of the Gods: A Social History of Tobacco
“Best of the Best, 2007.”
American Library Association
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The Spirits of America: A Social History of Alcohol
“Best of the Best, 2004.”
American Library Association
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Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism
“[A] work of genuine historical research, colorful personality, intellectual sophistication, heft, and durable interest.”
James Wolcott, Vanity Fair
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Broadcast Blues: Dispatches from the Twenty-Year War Between a
Television Reporter and His Medium
“Eric Burns is a man of wit, style, and integrity. So what was he doing in television news? Broadcast Blues tells his story hilariously, poignantly, deftly.”
Richard Schickel