Trump’s The Andrew Jackson of Our Time, Says Historian-Partner (Texas Lawyer)

By Winstead on December 2, 2016

Dallas lawyer Talmage Boston’s first brush with presidential history came from his mom’s gift on his seventh birthday: trading cards with photos of presidents and facts about their time in office.

The Winstead shareholder took a much deeper dive into the world of presidential historians in more recent years with a series of more than 30 public interviews with history authors and former government insiders.  He’s included those interviews in the book, Cross-Examining History: A Lawyer Gets Answers from the Experts About Our Presidents, which came out in September.

Boston, a civil litigator for almost 40 years, spoke with Texas Lawyer and about his perspective on Donald Trump’s upcoming presidency, seen through a historical lens.  Here are his answers, edited for brevity and clarity.  

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(Written by Angela Morris, Texas Lawyer)