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Historian and author Douglas Brinkley talked about Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, the National Park System, the U.S. space program, and more. He spoke with Brian Lamb in two multi-ho…

Historian and author Douglas Brinkley talked about Neil Armstrong, baseball stadiums, Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Depp, Evel Knievel, Oprah Winfrey and more. He spoke with Brian Lamb in two m…

Historian and author Douglas Brinkley talked about Kurt Vonnegut, D.H. Lawrence, his friendships with Bob Dylan and Chuck Berry, traveling to Cuba with Sean Penn and Christopher Hitchens, an…

Historian and author Douglas Brinkley talked about his teaching career, Stephen Ambrose, his book The Majic Bus, Arthur Miller, Waylon Jennings, Elizabeth Gilbert, and more. He spoke with Br…

Historian and author Douglas Brinkley talked about being educated at Georgetown and Oxford, Dean Acheson, working at used book and record stores, Muddy Waters, Little Richard, and more. He s…

Historian and author Douglas Brinkley talked about his favorite biographies, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Ross Perot, Ronald Reagan’s letters and memoir, the Nixon tapes and m…

Historian and author Richard Norton Smith talked about his interest in history, his early books, Groucho Marx, Gandhi, Bob Dole, American presidents with the best sense of humor and more. He…

Historian and author Richard Norton Smith talked about Bob Dole, sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, running the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and more. He spoke with Brian Lamb …

Historian and author Richard Norton Smith talked about Edward R. Murrow, Harvard University, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Willa Cather, and more. He spoke with Brian Lamb in three multi-hour s…

Historian and author Richard Norton Smith talked about his biography of President Ford, the Supreme Court, Congress, the media, talk show host Jack Paar, and more. He spoke with Brian Lamb i…

Historian and author Richard Norton Smith talked about the events of 1968, television, Rupert Murdoch, social media, his picks for smartest American presidents, spending time with President …

Historian and author Richard Norton Smith talked about his admiration for Charles de Gaulle and Winston Churchill, reading Ernest Hemingway, writing speeches and eulogies, reviewing books an…

Historian and author Richard Norton Smith talked about his favorite historians and history books, why he won’t go see “Hamilton: The Musical,” his love of hurricanes and world’s fairs, Ameri…

Historian and author Richard Norton Smith talked about running presidential libraries, teaching at George Mason University, his biography of Robert McCormick, humility, his views on religion…