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In a jovial evening seminar, five authorities help us discover why and how we should remember four figures whose presidential tenures spanned everything from the annexation of Texas to the banning of Ulysses. John Seigenthaler, founder of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, covers Polk. Hans Trefousse, professor of history emeritus at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, covers Hayes. Kevin Phillips, author of Wealth and Democracy and commentator for CBS and NPR, covers McKinley. John W. Dean, former White House lawyer for Richard Nixon, covers Harding. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Humanities Medal, presides over an eye-opening program that helps us, for once, expand the presidential birthday party.
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