Ted Widmer

Ted Widmer

• Birth:    1963
• Death:    
• Nationality:  American
• Education:   Phd in American History from Harvard
• Books Written
• Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City (1999) (winner of the 2001 Washington Irving Prize)
• Campaigns: A Century of Presidential Races (2001) (co-author with Alan Brinkley)
• Martin Van Buren (2004)
• Ark of the Liberties: America and the World (2008) (a history of U.S. foreign policy)
• Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy (2012) (co-author with Caroline Kennedy)
• Brown: The History of an Idea (2015)
• New York Times: Disunion: A History of the Civil War (2016) (co-editor with Clay Risen and George Kalogerakis)
• Biography

Edward (Ted) Ladd Widmer (born 1963) is a historian, writer, librarian and musician who served as a speechwriter in the Clinton White House. From Wikipedia

CSPAN2 talk on Listening In
 Biography at the Center for American Progress