<p><br>Born Jan. 22, 1953, in Washington, D.C., he was the son of Willa M. and Robert H. Faulkner. He was the oldest of two children.<P> As a young child, he enjoyed music. His godmother enrolled him ...

Writing in the late 1960s, David Rubinstein paid Eric Hobsbawm the historian’s ultimate, now increasingly rare, compliment: “he never forgets that he is writing about people.” Neil Faulkner’s “Empire ...