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Michael R. Beschloss
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Michael R. Beschloss

Michael Beschloss has been called "the nation's leading Presidential historian" by Newsweek. He has written eight books on American Presidents and is NBC News Presidential Historian, as well as contributor to PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and two sons.

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Summer reading picks are exciting
Murray Ledger and Times, July 16, 2009
...revisited William Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.In addition, he is currently reading Michael Beschloss's The Conquerers, an informative account of Presidents Roosevelt and Truman and the strategies they formulated to guide Germany from...
Noted presidential historian to give lecture June 5 at GSU
NWI Times, May 29, 2009
...ty will feature presidential historian and best-selling author Michael Beschloss as part of its Distinguished Lecture Series. Beschloss will present a lecture from 3 to 4:30 p.m. June 5 in Sherman Hall. The lecture is free and...
Historian discusses presidents' secrets
Daily Vidette, April 24, 2009
...Award winning historian, Michael Beschloss, speaks about his experience as a presidential historian and his newest book, 'Presidential Courage.' Author Michael Beschloss, one of America's leading presidential historians, shared hidden tales of American...
Ari Melber: Future Historians: Blogs Drive U.S. Foreign Policy
Huffington Post, April 13, 2009
...Sunday's New York Times Book Review has a salient example of blogs' ascension within the conventional wisdom. Michael Beschloss, the author, historian, Emmy-award winner and presidential scholar for NBC News, faulted a new foreign policy tome for failing...
Future Historians: Blogs Drive U.S. Foreign Policy
Huffington Post, April 13, 2009
...Sunday's New York Times Book Review has a salient example of blogs' ascension within the conventional wisdom. Michael Beschloss, the author, historian, Emmy-award winner and presidential scholar for NBC News, faulted a new foreign policy tome for failing...
Why Is Lincoln So Popular?
Finding Dulcinea, April 7, 2009
...told the paper that Lincoln?s words ?still sound contemporary? and people are attracted to ?his humble attitude.? Michael Beschloss, a presidential historian and author, apparently agrees with these sentiments. In ?Why Lincoln matters,?...
Jan. 20 Teen Movie Night shows ?Hancock?
Holbrook Sun, January 14, 2009
...selection for the month is ?Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship? by Jon Meacham. Michael Beschloss, author of ?Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989,? says, ?Jon Meacham has done...
Obama's tobacco habit hardly a White House first
Houston Chronicle, January 11, 2009
...Johnson saw Nixon sworn in, then got on the plane to fly back to Texas,' wrote presidential historian Michael Beschloss. 'When the front door of the plane closed, Johnson pulled out a cigarette first cigarette he had smoked since his heart attack in...
Eisenhower Center hits researcher milestone
The Abilene Reflector-Chronicle, December 21, 2008
...Since opening its records to researchers in 1966, the library has hosted many world-class scholars, including Stephen Ambrose, Michael Beschloss, Robert Ferrell, and John Lewis Gaddis, to name but a few. ?You?re in good company,? Tim Rives,...
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techPresident, April 13, 2009
...a salient example of blogs' ascension within the conventional wisdom from Sunday's New York Times Book Review. Michael Beschloss , the author, historian, Emmy-award winner and presidential scholar for NBC News, faulted a new foreign policy tome for...
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techPresident, April 13, 2009
...a salient example of blogs' ascension within the conventional wisdom from Sunday's New York Times Book Review. Michael Beschloss , the author, historian, Emmy-award winner and presidential scholar for NBC News, faulted a new foreign policy tome for...
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...Sunday's New York Times Book Review has a salient example of blogs' ascension within the conventional wisdom. Michael Beschloss , the author, historian, Emmy-award winner and presidential scholar for NBC News, faulted a new foreign policy tome for...
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