First Year 2017: Race, the Presidency, and the Limits of the Bully Pulpit

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American Forum

PBS World Channel National Broadcast: Virginia, March 19, 2017/Nationally, March 22, 2017

Russell Riley is an 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, the contemporary American presidency and the politics of race. 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-Keepng from 1831 to 1965, coeditor of Governing at Home: The White House and Domestic Policymaking, and coeditor of 42: Inside the Presidency of Bill Clinton. Riley’s most-recent book is Inside the Clinton White House.