Tuesday, May 27, 2003
The Boston Globe has a nice personal profile on one of our favorite essayists. (Hat tip: King)
Boston Globe Online / Sunday | Focus / The farmer
[...]VICTOR DAVIS HANSON leads a double life. A fifth-generation raisin farmer in California's fertile Central Valley, Hanson is also a historian of ancient Greece, a lyrical defender of American agrarianism, and a prolific contributor to conservative opinion magazines. His columns so caught the fancy of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney that he has enjoyed audiences with both. It's hard to say which is stranger: that a raisin farmer should exert such influence, or that a classics scholar should.[...]