Pulitzer Prize-winning Roosevelt scholar James MacGregor Burns talked with his former student at Williams College, presidential historian and NBC News commentator Michael Beschloss. Topics included Mr. Burns’s life and work studying the Roosevelt Era and the special relationship that developed between the two historians. Susan Dunn moderated.
“James MacGregor Burns: A Conversation and Readings” was the culmination of the eighth annual Roosevelt Reading Festival. It was held by the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in the Henry A. Wallace Visitor and Education Center in Hyde Park, New York.