Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, and Andrew Jackson reside in the first category, while Benjamin Harrison occupies a place in the latter. Nevertheless, each served as president.
In an animated discussion, moderator Bill Thompson, host of the daily author interview feature “Eye on Books” on Metro Source Radio Network, talks with several authorities to help us remember these four figures whose presidential tenure spanned everything from the Louisiana Purchase to the passage of the first U.S. billion-dollar peacetime budget. Joyce Appleby, professor of history, UCLA, covers Jefferson; Gary Hart, former U.S. senator from Colorado and senior counsel at the law firm Coudert Brothers, covers Monroe; Sean Wilentz, professor of history, Princeton University, covers Jackson; and Charles W. Calhoun, professor of history, East Carolina State, covers Harrison.
Their books from the series The American Presidents (Holt) are available for signing.
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