Interview with Larry Mantle on 89.3 KPCC

Why Moderates Make The Best Presidents July 14, 2008, 89.3 KPCC (Listen) Larry Mantle talks with author and historian Gil Troy about his new book, “Leading from the Center,” which presents evidence why the best American Presidents were able to avoid partisan extremes and work to lead from a more centrist point of view.

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Gil Troy on “A Kennedyesque future may await Obama”

A Kennedyesque future may await Obama He could do for black Americans what JFK did for Irish Catholics By LISA VAN DUSEN London Free Press, 7-27-08 McGill University history professor and presidential historian Gil Troy, who is spending the summer as a visiting scholar at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, compares the cultural impact [...]

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Gil Troy on Barack’s whirlwind tour on CTV’s Canada AM

Video: Latest : Obama in Europe : Canada AM: Gil Troy, U.S. presidential historian, on Barack’s whirlwind tour U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama arrived in Berlin on Thursday as part of a whirlwind international tour to raise his diplomatic profile.

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Gil Troy Quoted in Macleans

Macleans, Megapundit, July 23, 2003 “There’s a fine line between pragmatism and cynicism,” L. Ian MacDonald writes in the Montreal Gazette, and Barack Obama “runs a risk of crossing it” with his pronounced lurch to the centre of the political spectrum—particularly since he has so many gosh-darned earnest supporters on the leftmost flanks of the [...]

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Obama’s World Tour: Seeking Nuance and Passion

HNN, July 23, 2003 Historians are trained to bristle at the term “unprecedented.” We watch journalists hyperventilate and hype stories as we acknowledge we have seen it all before with a world-weary sigh. But Barack Obama’s whirlwind world tour is certainly un… usual. True, senators travel all the time, jetting around the world with more [...]

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On Obama in The Montreal Gazette

Barack Obama’s mad rush toward the middle The Democrat is following a well-trod path to moderation on the political stage L. IAN MACDONALD, The Montreal Gazette, Wednesday, July 23, 2008 …There’s a fine line between pragmatism and cynicism, and Obama runs a risk of crossing it, especially since he started out as the candidate of [...]

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Nearing toward foreign policy consensus

JPost, July 20, 2008   A JPost.com exclusive blog  Barack Obama and John McCain clashed over foreign policy last week – or did they? While some headlines emphasized the two candidates’ differences, proclaiming “McCain Slams Obama on Iraq Surge,” the two also agreed on many important fundamentals – as well as key policies. Their points [...]

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Shocker: Thanks to the Surge, Both Candidates Converge

HNN, July 17, 2008 Barack Obama and John McCain clashed over foreign policy this week – or did they? While some headlines emphasized the two candidates’ differences -proclaiming “McCain Slams Obama on Iraq Surge,” the two also agreed on many important fundamentals – as well as key policies. Their points of overlap demonstrate that both [...]

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Gil Troy on “The first lady tightrope walk”

The first lady tightrope walk Unlike earlier presidential spouses, Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain must emphasise both career and family to avoid criticism Excerpted from The Guardian, July 15, 2008 ….”Unfortunately for first ladies, the game is often more about un-favourability than favourability,” Gil Troy, a historian at McGill University and the author of Leading [...]

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Gil Troy US News & World Report Interview

In Praise of Moderate Presidents Historian Gil Troy talks about the promise of centrism in the 2008 presidential election By Johannah Cornblatt US News & World Report, Posted July 14, 2008 When historian Gil Troy began writing his latest book, Leading From the Center: Why Moderates Make the Best Presidents, he feared the American idea [...]

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