Morgan, Edmund. 2004. The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America. W.W. Norton and Company.
This is a collection of book reviews by a noted American (in both senses) historian. The book reviews, as is standard in the New York Review of Books where they appeared, do more than just narrowly remark on a particular book; instead, they provide brief introductions to particular literatures in the course of putting the book or books at hand into context. I enjoyed it throughout.
But shouldn't it be "An Historian"?
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"A" versus "An" is based on the first sound, not the first letter, of the following word. If the first letter is a voiced h (e.g., historian, home) you use an "a". If the first letter is an unvoiced h (e.g., hour, herb) then you use an "an". A perfectly good title could be "An Hour with A Historian".
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