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News & Politics, On Politics Feb 20, 2017
How does Trump stack up against America’s greatest presidents?

Historians surveyed by C-SPAN ranked Lincoln first, Nixon 28th, and Buchanan last.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, News, Presidents Day, Donald Trump, Richard Nixon, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, James Buchanan, C-SPAN, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Judith Miller, history

Arts & Culture, On Culture Feb 15, 2017
What’s wrong with presidential libraries?

Anthony Clark’s The Last Campaign explores the troubling history of these wonky historical institutions.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: On Culture, presidential libraries, Anthony Clark, The Last Campaign: How Presidents Rewrite History, Run for Posterity, and Enshrine their Legacies, House Committee on Oversight and Governmental Reform, National Archives, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Barack Obama, Obama presidential library, Obama Foundation, Presidential Libraries Act

News & Politics, On Politics Jan 25, 2017
Ameya Pawar wants a new New Deal

The 47th Ward alderman and gubernatorial hopeful conjures FDR in a run against Rauner.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: On Politics, News, Ameya Pawar, Bruce Rauner, Donald Trump, Rahm Emanuel, FDR, New Deal, Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt, income inequality

Blogs, Bleader May 25, 2016
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Trump may be a grandiose narcissist, but he’s no match for the Lyndon Johnson of All the Way

The HBO movie about a narcissist-in-chief reveals a lot about our potential new narcissist-in-chief.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, History, Politics, Television, Atlantic Monthly, Donald Trump, Dan P. McAdams, Northwestern University, Foley Center for the Study of Lives, George Simon, Psychological Science, Bill Clinton, Richard M. Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson, Lyndon Johnson, HBO Films, All the Way, Steven Spielberg, Robert Schenkkan, Bryan Cranston, John F. Kennedy, Parkland Hospital, Barry Goldwater, Civil Rights Act, Martin Luther King Jr., Anthony Mackie, J. Edgar Hoover, Stephen Root, Hubert Humphrey, Bradley Whitford, Richard Russell, Frank Langella, Lincoln Steven Spielberg, Dalton Trumbo, Jay Roach, Recount movie, Game Change movie, Walter Jenkins, Todd Weeks, Lady Bird Johnson, Melissa Leo, Democratic National Convention, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, LBJ Ranch, Cotulla, Everett Dirksen, Ray Wise, political history, presidential politics, 1964 presidential campaign, civil rights, biographical movies, narcissism, Video

Arts & Culture, Book Review Dec 10, 2012
How FDR won the war of public perception

Michele Landis Dauber's The Sympathetic State details the selling of the New Deal
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Book Review, The Sympathetic State: Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State, Stanford University, Michele Landis Dauber, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, FDR, New Deal, John Follett, Freedmen's Bureau, Robert LaFollette Jr., The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Social Security Act, Francis Perkins, Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, Chief Justice John Roberts, Barack Obama, Sheppard-Towner Act

Blogs, Bleader Oct 16, 2012
Q&A: Rick Perlstein on how a dose of machine politics could benefit Obama

The author of Before the Storm and Nixonland sits down for a chat in light of his recent Chicago magazine cover story
- By Micah Uetricht
- Tags: Midwestern Defensiveness, Politics, News, Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm, Nixonland, Barack Obama, Richard J. Daley, Abnar Mikva, Jim Farley, FDR, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Cass Sunstein, Ronald Reagan, Bert Lance

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