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Over the years, Summers says that Alter “has given [him] advice about Harvard and questions relating to education.” He adds that he has spoken with Alter at length about “ways that Harvard can make in a difference in terms of education...
Summers says he regards Alter and Whitaker as “extraordinarily successful,” and he calls Alter “one of the three or four most talented journalists of this generation” because of “his thoughtful approach...
...Alter also remembers courses with now-retired history pundits Adams University Professor Bernard Bailyn and David Donald. He also remembers a course at the Kennedy School with the Charles Warren Professor of History Ernest May and Richard Neustadt called “The Uses of History,” which he says has “proven very helpful to me for my column, since one of the things I like to do is provide history as context for current affairs...
...have had a life-long interest in history, and that is one of the things that I bring to the table,” says Alter, who often draws on analogies to Vietnam for his political coverage...
...after college, Alter had less conviction about life-long interests. “I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with my life at all,” he says. Whitaker was going to graduate school at Oxford and working at the London bureau of Newsweek...