1. Michael Richard Beschloss was born on November 30,1955 and is an American historian specializing in the United States presidency.
19 Facts About Michael Beschloss
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Michael Beschloss is the author of nine books on the presidency.
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Michael Beschloss majored in political science, studying under James MacGregor Burns at Williams College from which he graduated with Highest Honors, and earned an MBA at Harvard Business School, originally intending to write about history while he held a position as an executive at a foundation.
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Michael Beschloss has been a frequent commentator on the PBS NewsHour and is an NBC News presidential historian.
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Michael Beschloss is a trustee of the White House Historical Association and the National Archives Foundation.
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Michael Beschloss sat on the advisory board to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and was a member of the President's Commission on White House Fellowships.
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Michael Beschloss held appointments in history at the Smithsonian Institution, as a senior associate member at St Antony's College, a visiting scholar at the Harvard University Russian Research Center, a Senior Fellow of the Annenberg Foundation, and a Montgomery Fellow and Dorsett Fellow at Dartmouth College.
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Michael Beschloss has appeared on The Daily Show in 2003,2005,2006,2007, and 2010.
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Michael Beschloss was portrayed by Chris Kattan on NBC's Saturday Night Live on February 14,1998.
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Michael Beschloss has contributed columns on history with the title HistorySource to The New York Times.
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Michael Beschloss is the editor of Washington by Meg Greenfield and Essays in Honor of James MacGregor Burns in 1988.
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Michael Beschloss received a 2005 News and Documentary Emmy Award for being the host of Discovery Channel's Decisions That Shook the World, the category was "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research".
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Michael Beschloss has received the Williams College Bicentennial Medal, Illinois' Order of Lincoln, the Harry S Truman Public Service Award, the Ambassador Book Award, the Rutgers University Living History Award, the New York State Archives History Award, the Founders Award of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and the Phillips Academy Andover Alumni Award of Distinction.
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Michael Beschloss has received honorary doctorates from Lafayette College, Williams College, St Mary's College of Maryland, Saint Peter's College, Governors State University and Allegheny College.
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Michael Beschloss was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln by the governor in 2004 in the area of Communications and Education.
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In October 2022, Michael Beschloss received the National Archives' annual Records of Achievement Award.
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Michael Beschloss has two sons with his Iranian-born wife Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss.
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In Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack, President George W Bush is quoted as telling the author Elie Wiesel in February 2003, "I read your views on Auschwitz in Michael Beschloss' book", referring to The Conquerors.
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John Frankenheimer's last film, Path to War, starring Donald Sutherland and Michael Gambon, was based in part on Beschloss' two books about Lyndon B Johnson.