Richard Norton Smith

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Richard Norton Smith (born Leominster, Massachusetts in 1953- ) Photo of Richard Norton Smith

Presidential historian and former speech writer for Bob Dole, Elizabeth Dole, and a freelance writer for The Washington Post. He served as director of the Herbert Hoover library, the Ronald Reagan library, the Gerald Ford museum and library, the Robert Dole Institute, and the Abraham Lincoln museum and library. He is currently a research fellow at George Mason University in Virginia where he is completing work on his tenth book, a biography of former Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller.

He is a graduate of Harvard University with a degree in government.

[edit] External links

• Richard Norton Smith biography at Whitehouse.gov

[edit] "Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation"

Book by Richard Norton Smith

• Booknotes interview with Brian Lamb at BookTV.org
• Watch the Booknotes interview in streaming video
• Read the transcript of the Booknotes interview

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