Stephen Graubard

Stephen R. Graubard has been Assistant Professor of History at Harvard and Professor of History at Brown University. From 1961 to 1999 he was the editor of Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. As a young scholar, he was invited by Eleanor Roosevelt to attend the last inauguration of FDR on the lawn of the White House in 1945. He has known many of those closest to the succeeding Presidents since then, experience that he has drawn on in the writing of this book.