Mark Updegrove – Mark Updegrove is the Director of the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum in Austin, Texas. He became director of the LBJ Presidential Library in October of 2009. He is an author, publisher, lecturer, presidential historian, and journalist. Updegrove is the author of Baptism By Fire: Eight Presidents Who Took Office in Times of Crisis, and Second Acts: Presidential Lives and Legacies After the White House, which won Foreward Magazine’s Silver “Book of the Year” Award for political science. He has served as publisher of Newsweek, president of Time Canada, and Los Angeles manager of Time. While at Time he conceived “Time and the Presidency,” a traveling exhibit featuring photographs and reflections of Presidents Truman through Clinton. He has written for American Heritage, The Nation, Time and Worth, and has appeared on ABC News, CNN, C-Span, Fox News, and NPR.

 

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