Tag: Presidents



January 26th, 2017

A Week in the Life of a Returning Grad Student

Any chance I get, I love to insert The Beatles or Paul McCartney into the discussion. My two sisters got to see The Beatles at Atlanta stadium in 1965 and I’ve seen Paul McCartney several times over the years culminating with taking my whole extended family to the Paul McCartney concert at Piedmont Park in 2009.  It was the last

January 21st, 2017

Work and Study: Elections Conference

The prof I have for U. S. Presidents and one of the more senior faculty have a regular recap of elections. I’m not sure how many times they’ve done it, but I think I was several. Originally, the thought was it would be a look at a historic Hillary Clinton presidency.  However, the results came out differently and they had

January 3rd, 2017

Ready for the Reading

In the class I’m taking this semester on the U. S. Presidency, I’m reading all week in preparation.  The amount of reading is massive. The first book is “Thinking About the Presidency…” by William Howell. So far it’s a very readable book with lots of stories about presidents and how they use power.  Since American presidents are a “small N”