Finding Solace in Presidential Biographies

 In this Jan. 7, 2009, former presidents, from left, George H.W. Bush, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.

Alexis Coe, writer and historian and author of Alice + Freda Forever: A Murder in Memphis (Pulp/Zest Books, 2014) with a forthcoming George Washington biography, and a host of the podcast "Presidents Are People Too!", talks about her latest piece in the New York Times Magazine on presidential biographies.