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