President Trump’s Place in Presidential History

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 20, 2017

David Greenberg, historian of American politics and a professor of history and of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University and the author of Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency (W. W. Norton & Company, 2016), and Terry Madonna, Professor of Public Affairs and Director of the Center for Politics and Public Affairs at Franklin and Marshall College, discusses presidential history and where President Donald Trump fits into it.

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