Explorer #23: The Civil War Never Fully Ended w/Jeremi Siri

Jeremi Suri holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a professor in the University's Department of History and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Professor Suri is the author and editor of eleven books on politics and foreign policy, most recently: Civil War By Other Means: America's Long and Unfinished Fight for Democracy (which we discuss in the interview). SELECT BOOKS BY JEREMI SURI: - Civil War by Other Means: https://amzn.to/3F5DXSC  - The Impossible Presidency: https://amzn.to/3RQTRI1 - Liberty's Surest Guardian: https://amzn.to/3toGe8R  SUPPORT THE ACCENT ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/theaccentpodcast TIMESTAMPS  01:20 The Civil War never ended  03:05 Formation of the Republican Party  07:50 Causes of the Civil War and the reasons for North winning  14:15 South after the Civil War  19:00 Why Abraham Lincoln is the best president in the US history  20:10 John Wilkes Booth  22:55 Andrew Johnson is the worst president  26:20 Alexander Watkins Terrell  29:45 Moving on after wars  31:00 Ulysses S. Grant Presidency  34:45 Disputed 1876 Elections  38:10 Electoral College must go  45:55 Presidents James Garfield and Chester Arthur  50:45 Grover Cleveland – first President from the Democrat Party  53:50 Republicans and Democrats switching agendas  55:40 Cancers in American institutions  01:00:55 Rating the recent Presidents  01:04:45 Most Overrated and Underrated Presidents  01:07:00 How you should read Jeremi Suri's books