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‘An Honourable Englishman’ by Adam Sisman

New biography of British historian looks beyond his Hitler-diaries fiasco

By Mathew Price

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  December 25, 2011

With his shock of unruly white hair, thick glasses, and tweedy attire, the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper looked every inch the English don. But he was far from a cloistered academic. A globe trotting journalist, influential scholar, and sparkling essayist, he was central figure in many of the debates that roiled the transatlantic intellectual world during the Cold War. Indeed, Trevor-Roper achieved a fame rare for a professor.

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