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Author Archives: Richard Brookhiser

Photo of James Michael Curley bending the ear of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936.
Posted inStories

Tweet! Jailbird Politicians, An American Staple

by Richard Brookhiser9/20/20239/20/2023

A short history of men who won elections while they were behind bars.

Photo of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt (left) rides in an automobile with Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes (center), and Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace (right). The photo was taken in August of 1933, at the beginning of the New Deal administration.
Posted inStories

No One Wants to Grow Up and Be Vice President: The Worst Job in American Politics

by Richard Brookhiser5/30/20235/3/2023
Painting of Rising political star William Crawford’s life was upended when medicine he took for a skin ailment brought on a debilitating stroke.
Posted inStories

John Fetterman Isn’t the First Ill Politician to Serve. Here Are Examples from History

by Richard Brookhiser3/14/20233/14/2023
Photo of Former Secretary of State George Marshall, left, with Columbia University president Dwight Eisenhower in the early 1950s
Posted inStories

A Rundown of American Presidential Tantrums

by Richard Brookhiser12/27/202212/27/2022
Photo of California governor Ronald Reagan in 1968.
Posted inStories

It’s Not Enough Just to Be the President — You Have to Act the Part

by Richard Brookhiser8/30/20228/30/2022
Posted inStories

From Washington, DC to Kabul: The Chaotic Wartime Abandonment of a Capital

by Richard Brookhiser2/8/20222/8/2022
Posted inStories

Count Him Out: When Lincoln Jumped Out of a Second-Story Window to Dodge a Quorum

by Richard Brookhiser12/28/20212/7/2022
Posted inStories

How Anti-Asian Hate Became Rooted in America’s Immigration Laws

by Richard Brookhiser11/19/20217/11/2022
A state guard Gatling gun crew in defensive position at the capitol in Frankfort, Kentucky, in January 1900 during the chaos that surrounded the disputed gubernatorial election and the murder of William Goebel. (Kentucky Historical Society)
Posted inStories

‘Stop the Steal’ Was the Rallying Cry of a Bloody, Bitter Election Cycle—in 1899

by Richard Brookhiser3/2/20216/7/2022
Posted inStories

In 1800 Political Parties Used Court-Packing to Establish Legacy. Here’s How.

by Richard Brookhiser1/5/20216/7/2022

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