by Mike Purdy | Jun 4, 2019 | Bill Clinton, Books, Donald Trump, George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Harry Truman, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Quotes, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Theodore Roosevelt, Warren Harding, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson
Listen to this 22 minute radio interview between host Adam Lepp of WWGH 107.1 FM (Marion, Ohio – home of President Warren G. Harding) and presidential historian Dr. Ronald Feinman (author of Assassinations,Threats, and the American Presidency: From Andrew...
by Mike Purdy | Jun 2, 2019 | Books, Donald Trump, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson
I was recently privileged to join Annie Mesaros on her podcast “God Help Us,” which she founded and hosts. We discussed civility (or the lack thereof) in our public discourse, historical presidential relationships, the current president, and the 2020...
by Mike Purdy | Apr 8, 2019 | Books, Quotes
I’m excited to announce the publication of my new book about our presidents – how they’ve historically insulted one another – and what this lack of civility means to us in our current political environment. 101 Presidential Insults: What They Really Thought About Each...
by Mike Purdy | Nov 25, 2018 | Books, Jimmy Carter, Uncategorized
Jimmy Carter’s smile, confidence, intelligence, and determination paved his unlikely path to the Oval Office in 1976. But once in office, he was hampered by another core feature of his personality: his engineering mindset. He approached issues as technical...
by Mike Purdy | Sep 10, 2018 | Books, Homes, Jimmy Carter
If you want to know what has shaped and made Jimmy Carter the man he is, you have to soak in the ambience of the small town of Plains, Georgia. It was here on October 1, 1924 that the future president was born. And it is in Plains that Carter has always returned, and...
by Mike Purdy | Aug 2, 2018 | Books
Presidential biographers continue to churn out an amazing flow of new books about the presidents. It’s hard to keep up with them all! Steve Floyd, who has been reading and reviewing presidential biographies since late 2012, has compiled a list of upcoming and...
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