This selection will begin Januand will continue for three - four months - depending upon the length of the selection. The order for the Presidents selected was determined by the group membership. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.This poll will examine the choices for the John Quincy Adams reading selection which will be the next President covered in the Presidential Series. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. INSKEEP: It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News.Ĭopyright © 2013 NPR. One of the volumes won a National Book Award.Īnd when a friend recently loaned me a set of the books for some research, they got so dog-eared that I really can't give them back. It grew to three volumes and almost became four before his editor stopped him. With such an eventful life to study, Remini's project got out of control. INSKEEP: Robert Remini meant to write a single volume on Jackson, a general and president who killed a man in a duel, won the Battle of New Orleans, founded the Democratic Party, elbowed Indians off their land, and ended up on the $20 bill.
Now, in the years before his death at age 91, he also served as historian for the House of Representatives, assisting lawmakers who often cite history but may not always get it right.īut his greatest achievement remained his giant biography of Andrew Jackson. GREENE: That's Remini with our colleague Michele Norris. And we need to get back, you know, to the idea that that's what compromise is. PROFESSOR ROBERT REMINI: Compromise, you see, in the 19th century, meant something quite different that you're willing to listen to the other side and try to work out your differences, and he was expert at that. His books included one on Senator Henry Clay, best known for compromises that kept the nation from imploding over slavery. He spent a lifetime exploring handwritten letters and other documents that illuminate the 19th century. The American historian Robert Remini has died.
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