America's Presidents: All Too Human In-Person
The vast majority of those who occupied the White House never came close to replicating the extraordinary leadership of the likes of Washington, Lincoln, or Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Why? Gerald Henig (author of America’s Presidents: What Your History Teacher Never Told You) offers little-known and compelling stories— funny, tragic, and, in some cases, startling—that help to explain why only a handful of our chief executives etched a place for themselves in the annals of presidential greatness.
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Gerald S. Henig is professor emeritus of history at California State University, East Bay, where he received the Outstanding Professor Award and won the Pi Kappa Delta Best Lecturer Award an unprecedented four times. He is the author of Henry Winter Davis: Antebellum and Civil War Congressman from Maryland, Civil War Firsts:The Legacies of America’s Bloodiest Conflict, and America’s Presidents: What Your History Teacher NeverTold You, which the nationally prestigious Kirkus Reviews named a “Best Indie [university or small press] Book of 2024.” He has also published dozens of articles on American political, social, and military history. An avid jogger, reader, and traveler, but what he loves most is spending time with his grandchildren. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.