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Michael Beschloss

Biography

Michael Beschloss

Michael Beschloss is the author of nine books on presidential history, including, most recently, the New York Times bestsellers PRESIDENTIAL COURAGE and THE CONQUERORS, as well as two volumes on Lyndon Johnson’s White House tapes. He was also editor of the number-one global bestseller JACQUELINE KENNEDY: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy. He is the NBC News Presidential Historian and a "PBS NewsHour" contributor, and has received an Emmy and six honorary degrees.

Michael Beschloss

Books by Michael Beschloss

by Michael Beschloss - History, Nonfiction, Politics

Ten years in the research and writing, PRESIDENTS OF WAR is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions that face any President, at times sending hundreds of thousands of American men and women to their deaths. From James Madison and the War of 1812 to recent times, we see them struggling with Congress, the courts, the press, their own advisors and antiwar protesters. We come to understand how these Presidents were able to withstand the pressures of war --- both physically and emotionally --- or were broken by them.