American regicide: Postwar presidents and the painful politics of demobilization

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This event is part of the Historical Presidency Series

Russell Riley is associate professor and co-chair of the Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Program. He is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on elite oral history interviewing and on the contemporary American presidency. Since 2003, he has led the William J. Clinton Presidential History Project, interviewing more than 100 former Clinton-era officials, including leading members of Congress and foreign heads of state. He is the author of The Presidency and the Politics of Racial Inequality: Nation-Keeping from 1831 to 1965, co-editor of Governing at Home: The White House and Domestic Policymaking, and co-editor of 42: Inside the Presidency of Bill Clinton. Most recently, Riley is the author of Inside the Clinton White House.