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James M. Banner, Jr.

James M. Banner, Jr.
A Guggenheim Award–winning historian, James M. Banner, Jr., was on the Princeton faculty in 1974 when he contributed to the presidential misconduct report and is now an independent historian in Washington, DC. He was a co-founder of the History News Service, a moving spirit behind the National History Center, the author of many books, including Being a Historian, and the editor of Presidential Misconduct: From George Washington to Today (The New Press).


When Bad Presidents Misbehave Do They Always Get
Away With It?

Three Test Cases: Buchanan, Johnson, and Harding
July 15, 2019  By James M. Banner, Jr.
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