In the clips above, Jon Meacham of Newsweek discusses Presidential courage with historian Michael Beschloss and his most recent book, Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989. In the clip below, Michael Beschloss discusses the challenges President Lincoln faced over the question of slavery.
Beschloss has written books on several U.S. Presidents, including The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963, which won the Ambassador Book Prize and was called the “definitive” history of John F. Kennedy and the Cold War. The Conquerors, Beschloss’ book about Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and the destruction of Hitler’s Germany, was a national bestseller and praised by The New York Times Book Review as “vigorously written” and without “a dull page.”
Beschloss contributed a revealing essay on George Herbert Walker Bush in a recent book concerning Presidential leadership. A compelling critic and keen political observer, he appears regularly on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and Meet the Press.