As the opening of the Barack Obama Presidential Center approaches and renderings of a future Donald Trump presidential library circulate, presidential libraries are back in the news — raising a broader question about what they reveal about our politics today. They also invite reflection on how we tell our political history.
I thought about those questions recently on a visit to three presidential libraries in Texas — those of Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson and Republicans George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. I expected to find sharp differences between these presidencies. Yet what struck me most was not the contrast
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