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LAWRENCE -- Richard Norton Smith, director of the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas and a noted presidential historian, will appear on a nationally telecast panel discussion on biographers.
C-SPAN will broadcast the Organization of American Historians conference panel discussion, "Telling Lives," from 8 to 10 a.m. Saturday, April 13.
Smith is a member of the panel along with Robert Caro, Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has written a three-volume biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Nell Irvin Painter, author of "Sojourner Truth: a Life, a Symbol." Painter has written extensively about the black experience in America during the 19th century, and her other books include "Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas after Reconstruction."
Smith is a nationally recognized authority on the American presidency. His books include "Thomas E. Dewey and His Times," which was a finalist for the 1983 Pulitzer Prize. He has also written "An Uncommon Man: the Triumph of Herbert Hoover," "The Harvard Century: the Making of a University to a Nation," "Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation" and "The Colonel: the Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick."
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