Bye Bye For Now!  

President’s History Day Month has only furthered the obscurity and disrespect of “America’s Only Bachelor President,” James Buchanan. First, C-Span’s poll of presidential history guys ‘n gals on the go confirmed his spot at te bottom of the POTUS opinion sweepstakes.  And now his Pennsylvania estate has had to […]

Survey Says 
C-SPAN’s presidential historian survey holds many thrills: the inexorable rise of Bill Clinton, how far from bottom     George W. Bush has settled, but the historians themselves hold their own excitement.
Who are these guys?

The mysteries of “presidential historian” credentialing are many, and among this crew are some rather odd characters.
In his writings Joseph […]

Who Is The Real Michelle Obama? 
Alarms are being sounded over First Lady Michelle Obama forays into the policy realm, as she made the first of what are promised to be more federal agency visits. Mrs. Obama has touted Obama Administration policies recently at both the Housing & Urban Development and Education Departments.
First Lady historian […]

What We’re Made Of   
Ronald Reagan’s birthday is Friday, and it would appear America’s love affair with the leathery matinee idol can only be sated by fawning tome after fawning tome   on the cooing conservative.
    But the only Reagan book you really need this year is Will Bunch’s Tear Down This Myth. […]

The Hard Shell 
The New Yorker reports the latest on the effort to flog Laura “The Nice One” Bush’s tell-some memoirs, which has involved a series of publishing greats trekking to the White House to meet the Fightin’ Librarian before they sign up.
One publisher says it isn’t going well.

“I considered it the worst, or the […]