Professor Jeremi Suri holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of numerous books including Henry Kissinger and the American Century, The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office and many other excellent works. The following are books and articles pertinent to our conversation today:

Henry Kissinger and the American Century

The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office

Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente

Liberty's Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from the Founders to Obama