Richard Norton Smith
Richard Norton Smith
Richard Norton Smithis an American historian and author specializing in U.S. presidents and other political figures. In the past, he worked as a freelance writer for The Washington Post, and worked with U.S. Senators Edward Brooke and Bob Dole...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
CountryUnited States of America
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government talking disaster
When we're talking about the "American response" to any disaster, it's not just a government response, an official response, it's a popular response.
august convention delegation earned floor guest money tickets
I was 14 years old in August of 1968 and had earned the money and had managed to get tickets as a guest of the Massachusetts delegation to the Republican convention in Miami and where I was on the floor in the Rockefeller demonstrations.
hardest historian relative
One of hardest for any historian or a biographer to do is to capture convincingly on paper something as ethereal as charisma. It's a relative term, and different generations define it differently.
lincoln mount patron presidents saint unpopular
Presidents in wartime, embattled presidents, unpopular presidents, they all look to Lincoln. He's their patron saint because no president was more embattled or more unpopular than Lincoln was during his presidency. We think he was born on Mount Rushmore. Not so.