Understanding the Presidency: Personality, Politics, and Policy

Ted Widmer, a presidential speech writer during the Clinton administration, will moderate a panel of three distinguished biographers: Evan Thomas (Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle to Save the World), Kathleen Dalton (Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life), and David Michaelis (author of a forthcoming biography of Eleanor Roosevelt) who will focus on the peculiar balance between policy and politics as it affects writing presidential biography.