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Presidential — 61 episodes

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Introducing: Freedom Desk with Jason Rezaian

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BONUS | The presidents who’ve tried to win back the White House

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BONUS | Women, politics and the presidency

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Introducing, "The Sports Moment"

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The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop: ‘Somebody knows’

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Introducing “The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop”

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Listen to the first episode of “Field Trip”: Yosemite National Park

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Introducing “Field Trip”

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A sneak peek from Lillian

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BONUS | Happy Presidents’ Day! Or … not?

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Joe Biden: Triumph, tragedy and the fate of the center

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BONUS | What books about Trump say about America

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BONUS | Pandemic, propaganda and the presidency

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BONUS | When a VP pick changes history

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BONUS | Binding up the nation's wounds

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LIVE EVENT | 'Unprecedented Presidents' live from WBUR CitySpace

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Donald Trump: Division and union

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Barack Obama: The pursuit of identity

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George W. Bush: Changing course

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Bill Clinton: The good and the bad

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George H. W. Bush: Restraint

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Ronald Reagan: Myths and truths

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Jimmy Carter: Keeping the faith

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Gerald Ford: It's personal

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Richard Nixon: Looking inward

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Lyndon B. Johnson: Power

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John F. Kennedy: We are all mortal

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Dwight D. Eisenhower: Covert action

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Harry S. Truman: Trying to make the right call

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Franklin D. Roosevelt: Through Eleanor's eyes

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Herbert Hoover: Dealing with disaster

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Calvin Coolidge: A tale of two Coolidges

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Warren G. Harding: Love and scandal

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Woodrow Wilson: A complicated legacy

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William Howard Taft: This chief, not that chief

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Theodore Roosevelt: Exuberance

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William McKinley: The modern campaign

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Benjamin Harrison: The president as conservationist

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Grover Cleveland: Tell the truth

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Chester A. Arthur: Redemption

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James A. Garfield: Shot down

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Rutherford B. Hayes: The most contested election

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Ulysses S. Grant: Lover, fighter, writer

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Andrew Johnson: Stitching up a torn country

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Abraham Lincoln: His hand and his pen

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James Buchanan: The bachelor and the bloodshed

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Franklin Pierce: Rolling off the tracks

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Millard Fillmore: Teaching the obscure presidents

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Zachary Taylor: War heroes and conspiracy theory

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James K. Polk: Getting it done

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John Tyler: Ghosts and the vice presidency

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William Henry Harrison: Great song, horrible death

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Martin Van Buren: The story of our two-party system

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Andrew Jackson: The violence, the fight

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John Quincy Adams: The trait that broke a presidency

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James Monroe: The Forrest Gump of presidents

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James Madison: Burning down the house

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Thomas Jefferson: On food and freedom

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John Adams: The case of the missing monument

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George Washington: The man, the myth, the legend

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