Gil Troy Quoted in Globe & Mail: “One night of civility won’t change 200 years of hostility”

Source: The Globe & Mail, 1-25-11 …History suggests Abraham Lincoln’s faith in “the better angels of our nature” has been a fleeting sentiment in American politics. Indeed, his 1861 inaugural appeal to secessionists preceded by only five weeks the outbreak of the paradoxically named Civil War. Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence, with its [...]

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Gil Troy Quoted in NYT: “Let Obama’s Reagan Revolution Begin”

FRANK RICH: Let Obama’s Reagan Revolution Begin: Source: NYT, 1-8-11 …The present-day radicals donning Reagan drag, led by Sarah Palin, seem not to know, as Cannon writes, that their hero lurched “from excessive tax cuts to corrective tax increases disguised as tax reform” and “submitted eight unbalanced budgets to Congress in succession.” Reagan made no [...]

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Gil Troy Quoted in Newsweek: Obama’s Choice of Daley Fits Mold for Embattled Presidents

Obama’s Choice of Daley Fits Mold for Embattled Presidents Bringing in an outside critic to run his operation might help change the narrative of the presidency. by Ben Adler, Newsweek, 1-6-11 J. Scott Applewhite / APPresident Obama listens as new Chief of Staff William Daley makes a statement in the East Room of the White [...]

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Gil Troy Quoted “Are Canadian politics hot enough to brew U.S.-style Tea Party?”

Canada.com, 11-5-10 ….Gil Troy, an American who teaches U.S. political history at McGill University in Montreal, cautions that however passionate Canada’s Tea Party wannabes might be, their ideals are unlikely to ignite the same fires in this country as in the U.S. For one thing, Canada’s economy is in far better shape. Troy says the [...]

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Gil Troy in The Globe & Mail: Obama’s ‘we’ philosophy collides with capitalism’s ‘me’:

Source: Globe & Mail, 7-9-10 Obama’s ‘we’ philosophy collides with capitalism’s ‘me’ US President Barack Obama speaks on the economy and job creation at Smith Electric Vehicles in Kansas City, Mo. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Business leaders accuse President of using failures of a few to justify expansion of government regulatory authority …For McGill University political [...]

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Gil Troy Quoted in The Canadian Press: Summertime is living easy for Canada’s PMs

Source: The Canadian Press, 7-6-10 …Where presidents vacation is part of their story, said Gil Troy, a professor of American history at McGill University in Montreal. Most U.S. presidents have a private summer home they use for vacation. George W. Bush had both his ranch in Texas and a home in Maine. The Kennedys had [...]

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Gil Troy Quoted in Globe & Mail about G20 Conference

Primary job for spouses of G20 leaders: Do no harm First ladies, Michelle Obama, left, Carla Bruni of France, right, chat as they pose during the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh in 2009. Gerald Herbert/AP Though prominent wives have advocated for political initiatives at home, they’ve stayed away from the microphones at international summits Globe & [...]

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Gil Troy Interview with Macleans: On the Gores’ breakup, the Clintons’ survival, and the marital toll of a lost election

On the Gores’ breakup, the Clintons’ survival, and the marital toll of a lost election Presidential expert Gil Troy in conversation with Kate Fillion by Kate Fillion, Macleans, Wednesday, June 16, 2010 10:00am Yoray Liberman/Getty Images A professor of history at McGill and a visiting scholar affiliated with the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, Gil [...]

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Gil Troy Quoted in New York Times on Al & Tipper Gore Separation

Assumptions Go Asunder as Gores Split Mark Wilson/Getty Images Al Gore with his wife, Tipper, in 2007. By MARK LEIBOVICH, NYT, 6-1-2010 …Al and Tipper Gore’s announcement Tuesday that they would be separating after 40 years together underscores, yet again, a basic truism about any marriage, particularly political ones: You just never know. The point [...]

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Gil Troy “For Obama, What A Difference A Week Made”

NPR, 4-6-10 The protracted health care battle looks to have taught the White House something about power, says presidential historian Gil Troy — a lesson that will inform Obama’s pursuit of his initiatives going forward. “I think that Obama realizes that presidential power is a muscle, and the more you exercise it, the stronger it [...]

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