Richard Norton Smith - On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller

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R ICHARD N ORTON S MITH is the author of Thomas E. Dewey and His Times, for which he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1983, as well as An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover; The Harvard Century: The Making of a University to a Nation; The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 18801955; and Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation. He has served as director of several presidential libraries, including those of Presidents Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan. He was founding director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Illinois. A frequent guest on CSPAN and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (and, later, The PBS NewsHour ) and a former presidential historian for ABC News, he has spent fourteen years researching and writing On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller.

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