Explorer #23: The Civil War Never Fully Ended w/Jeremi Siri

Jeremi Suri holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a professor in the University's Department of History and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Professor Suri is the author and editor of eleven books on politics and foreign policy, most recently: Civil War By Other Means: America’s Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy (which we discuss in the interview).

SELECT BOOKS BY JEREMI SURI:

- Civil War by Other Means: https://amzn.to/3F5DXSC 

- The Impossible Presidency: https://amzn.to/3RQTRI1

- Liberty’s Surest Guardian: https://amzn.to/3toGe8R 

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TIMESTAMPS 

01:20 The Civil War never ended 

03:05 Formation of the Republican Party 

07:50 Causes of the Civil War and the reasons for North winning 

14:15 South after the Civil War 

19:00 Why Abraham Lincoln is the best president in the US history 

20:10 John Wilkes Booth 

22:55 Andrew Johnson is the worst president 

26:20 Alexander Watkins Terrell 

29:45 Moving on after wars 

31:00 Ulysses S. Grant Presidency 

34:45 Disputed 1876 Elections 

38:10 Electoral College must go 

45:55 Presidents James Garfield and Chester Arthur 

50:45 Grover Cleveland – first President from the Democrat Party 

53:50 Republicans and Democrats switching agendas 

55:40 Cancers in American institutions 

01:00:55 Rating the recent Presidents 

01:04:45 Most Overrated and Underrated Presidents 

01:07:00 How you should read Jeremi Suri’s books