With the Bark Off: Conversations from the LBJ Presidential Library Podcast
1) "They're the only two people in the world who can possibly understand each other" A Conversation About Biden and Obama with Gabriel Debenedetti
Journalist Gabriel Debenedetti talks about one of the most consequential political partnerships of recent times, the relationship between Joe Biden and Barack Obama.
2) "Dewey Defeats Truman" A conversation about the election of 1948 with A.J. Baime
New York Times bestselling author A.J. Baime joined us to discuss the famous outcome of the presidential election of 1948. Baime is the author of The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four...Show More
"Dewey Defeats Truman" A conversation about the election of 1948 with A.J. Baime
55:04 | Mar 7th, 2024
3) Previewing the 2024 Presidential Election with Richard Hasen & Joshua Sellers
Last month, Mark Updegrove moderated a discussion at the Baker Institute for Public Policy, at Rice University, entitled "A presidential election with legal issues like no other." There, he interviewe...Show More
Previewing the 2024 Presidential Election with Richard Hasen & Joshua Sellers
1:01:33 | Jan 18th, 2024
4) A Conversation With Secretary Robert Gates
Robert Gates served in public life for over 50 years. In 2006, he was named Secretary of Defense by President George W. Bush as our nation waged war in Afghanistan and Iraq. He would retain the positi...Show More
5) A Conversation with Heather Cox Richardson
Heather Cox Richardson is professor of history at Boston College, and author of six major books about US history in the 19th Century. She also publishes the daily newsletter Letters From An American, ...Show More
6) A Conversation with Jake Tapper
Jake Tapper is the chief Washington anchor for CNN, whose shows “The Lead with Jake Tapper” and “State of the Union” are fixtures of broadcast news. He joined us at the LBJ Library to share his reflec...Show More
7) "He becomes a genuine believer" A conversation about Abraham Lincoln with Josh Zeitz
Joshua Zeitz joins us to talk about the inner religious life of Abraham Lincoln, a subject of continued fascination to historians and biographers 150 years after his death.
"He becomes a genuine believer" A conversation about Abraham Lincoln with Josh Zeitz
48:08 | Sep 28th, 2023
8) "A key moment of our civil rights narrative that's never gotten its due" A conversation about Hubert Humphrey with Samuel Freedman
Samuel Freedman is a Professor at Columbia University and the award-winning author of ten books. In Into the Bright Sunshine he looks at the life of Hubert Humphrey, who would become Senator from Minn...Show More
9) "A pathologically reasonable person in power" A Conversation about President Garfield with C.W. Goodyear
C.W. Goodyear is a writer and historian based in Washington, D.C. Earlier this year, he published his first book, President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier, which has earned effusive praise for meti...Show More
10) Best of With the Bark Off 2023 (Part 1)
Given the popularity of our year-end “best of” episode, we have curated seven especially enlightening, entertaining, or surprising vignettes from the last six months. You’ll learn about Reagan’s novel...Show More