"What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story."
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As quoted by Lewis Nichols in "Talk With Jim Bishop", The New York Times (6 February 1955).
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Jim Bishop
James Alonzo "Jim" Bishop (21 November 1907 – 26 July 1987) was an American journalist and author.
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