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Victor Davis Hanson: Equally at home with ancient history and contemporary politics, a reader of Greek and Latin who exhibits a strong popular touch, a man with unsually deep roots and phenomenally broad interest, he's hardly your everyday academic.("Live" with TAE)(Interview)

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Victor Davis Hanson has written on topics as diverse as the ancient Greeks, military history, farming, immigration, and the world post 9/11. In addition to being a prolific author, he is a professor and co-founder of the Classics Department at California State University, Fresno. Much of Hanson's worldview, including his initial attraction to the classics, is rooted in his experience growing up on the family farm in Selma, California, where he was born and raised and still lives with his wife and three children.

Hanson's books include: Mexifornia: A State of Becoming (2003), An Autumn of War: What America Learned from September 11 and the War on Terrorism (2002), ...

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