White Flint Bill
Sergeant
- Joined
- Oct 9, 2017
- Location
- Southern Virginia
E. B. Long was one of his researchers, but that doesn't mean he didn't also do research himself as well.
Yes, it was E. B. Long is was thinking of. According to David Blight, Doubleday Publishing paid E. B. Long a hefty full-time salary to do research for Catton. ($18,000/year in the early 60's--which would be over $150,000/year in today's dollars). Blight says he knows of no other historian, ever, who had a full-time research assistant paid for by his publisher. At one point, Long wrote a report for Doubleday in which he claimed to have sent Catton, over a ten year period, over 9 million words and 24,000 pages of research notes, taken from over 3,500 sources.
Blight gave his lecture on Catton at the Huntington Library in 2011.