Remember Palmer Joss, the super-cool scientist played by Matthew McConaughey in Contact? He's the Presidential Science Adviser who's so cool and hip you know he gets autographs outside the White House and at Harvard.
Well, Michael Beschloss, presidential historian, would be the real-world Palmer Joss of History. You may have seen Beschloss on PBS. I have. Best I can tell, he's provided commentary for the presidential debates in the last three elections - beginning as third chair historian for Bush v. Gore, then second chair for Bush v. Kerry, and now NPR's first chair presidential historian for the current contest. He's handsome, dresses cool, has an ususual voice, always smiles, and regularly hasn't something insightful to say that actually has to do with history. But not too "historical." Accessible history ... know what I mean?
Michael Beschloss, friends, quite possibly the hippest historian alive.
1 comment:
yes!! a hip historian...boo-yah
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