President Donald J Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey is unprecedented, as is much of what Trump has undertaken as president. Despite similarities with president Richard M Nixon’s infamous “Saturday Night Massacre” 44 years ago, during the Watergate scandal, the political situations are utterly different. In October 1973, Nixon, waiting until a weekend, ordered […]
Author Archives: Sean Wilentz
Professor Sean Wilentz is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University. His books include The Politicians and Egalitarians: the Hidden History of American Politics, and Bob Dylan in America.
