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Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Books of 2023 “Richard Norton Smith had brought a lifetime of wisdom, insight, and storytelling verve to the life of a consequential president—Gerald R. Ford. Ford’s is a very American life, and Smith has charted its vicissitudes and import with great grace and illumi... Read More about An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford

Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Books of 2023 “Richard Norton Smith had brought a lifetime of wisdom, insight, and storytelling verve to the life of a consequential president—Gerald R. Ford. Ford’s is a very American life, and Smith has charted its vicissitudes and import with great grace and illumi... Read More about An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford

"Gerald Ford is probably remembered more for how he got to the presidency than for what he did there. In this brilliant book, Richard Norton Smith tells the rest of the story. On every other page I found something I didn't know, bringing new and important insights into how Ford kept the nation toget... Read More about An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford

The complete rankings of our best -- and worst -- presidents, based on C-SPAN's much-cited Historians Surveys of Presidential Leadership.Over a period of decades, C-SPAN has surveyed leading historians on the best and worst of America's presidents across a variety of categories -- their ability to p... Read More about The Presidents: Noted Historians Rank America's Best--and Worst--Chief Executives

For most of three decades, Drew Pearson was the most well-known journalist in the United States. In his daily newspaper column—the most widely syndicated in the nation—and on radio and television broadcasts, he chronicled the political and public policy news of the nation. At the same time, he worke... Read More about Washington Merry-Go-Round: The Drew Pearson Diaries, 1960-1969

This is the acclaimed biography of a giant of American journalism. As editor-publisher of the Chicago Tribune, Robert R. McCormick came to personify his city. Drawing on McCormick's personal papers and years of research, Richard Norton Smith has written the definitive life of the towering figure k... Read More about The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955