Mike Purdy

MIKE PURDY is a presidential historian and the author of 101 Presidential Insults: What They Really Thought About Each Other – and What It Means to Us. He is the founder of http://PresidentialHistory.com that includes his award-winning presidential history blog. Mike is a frequent commentator on presidential history and politics for national and international media outlets including CNN, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Today.com, Reuters, Bloomberg BNA, The Huffington Post, and BBC.

He is a regular opinion contributor to TheHill.com, and is the author of the Foreword to The Story of John Quincy Adams 250 Years Later.

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