Michael
Beschloss and Richard Norton Smith are
nationally recognized historians. Both have
done extensive research and published numerous works
on the American presidency. They are major
figures in the ongoing conversation regarding American
diplomacy and the influence of the American presidency
in domestic and foreign affairs.
Michael Beschloss is
an award-winning historian and the author of eight books,
including Kennedy and Roosevelt: The Uneasy
Alliance; Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the
U-2 Affair; and most recently, the New York Times best-seller The
Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler’s
Germany, 1941-1945. His book, The Crisis Years:
Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963, won the Ambassador
Book Prize and was called the "definitive" history
of John Kennedy and the Cold War by the New Yorker. Beschloss
was described as "the nation’s leading
Presidential historian” by Newsweek, and in
August of 2005, he was appointed the NBC News Presidential
Historian.
To
find out more about Michael Beschloss, click
here.
Richard
Norton Smith began as a freelance
writer for The Washington Post after graduating
magna cum laude from Harvard University. Mr. Smith’s
first major book, Thomas E. Dewey and His Times,
was a finalist for the 1983 Pulitzer Prize. He has also written An
Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover (1984), The
Harvard Century: The Making of a University to a Nation (1986)
and Patriarch: George Washington and the New American
Nation (1993). In June 1997, Houghton Mifflin published
Mr. Smith’s The Colonel: The Life and Legend of
Robert R. McCormick, which received the prestigious
Goldsmith Prize awarded by Harvard’s John F. Kennedy
School, and has been described by Hilton Kramer as “the
best book ever written about the press.” He has served
as director for numerous presidential libraries, most recently
the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield,
Illinois.
To
find out more about Richard Norton
Smith, click
here.
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