presidency Archives - The American Scholar

Resisting Mr. T****

By Phillip Lopate | 03/03/2017 |

Or, the art of the boast

Unwelcome Home

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | 12/14/2016 |

Confronting the Inevitable Subject

By Phillip Lopate | 08/12/2016 |

A few hundred words, and then I’m done

A Model Marriage

By Mary Beth Norton | 12/07/2015 |

An intimate portrait of a couple who helped forge a nation

Hail to the Chiefs

By Michael Sherry | 12/07/2015 |

Leaders of the last century

Dubya and Me

By Walt Harrington | 08/25/2011 |

Over the course of a quarter-century, a journalist witnessed the transformation of George W. Bush

The Imbalance of Power

By Paul Boyer | 03/01/2010

How the Manhattan Project gave birth to the imperial presidency

Lincoln the Persuader

By Douglas L. Wilson | 09/01/2006

Seeking to get people behind his policies, he made himself the best writer for all our presidents