Ronald L. Feinman
Ronald L. Feinman received his Ph.D. from the City University of New York Graduate School in 1975. His dissertation advisor was Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Dr. Feinman is the author of “Twilight of Progressivism: The Western Republican Senators and the New Deal” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981) and “Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency: From Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama” (Rowman Littlefield Publishers, 2015, Paperback Edition 2017). In addition to this blog, Dr. Feinman has blogged at TheProgressiveProfessor.com since 2008 and is a political and historical Commentator on Radio Station WWGH, 107.1 FM, Marion, Ohio. Dr. Feinman has spent nearly a half century as Professor of American History, Government and Politics and is still teaching a US Presidency class at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida every Fall and Spring term.
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Aug 15, 2021
More Senators Who Impacted Politics Outside the Two-Party System
by Ronald L. Feinman
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Aug 6, 2021
Illinois's 16th Congressional District Has Put Forward Three Important National Politicians
by Ronald L. Feinman
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Jul 25, 2021
Influential Independent and Third-Party Senators (Part 1)
by Ronald L. Feinman
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Jul 6, 2021
Who's Up, Who's Down in the latest CSPAN Presidential Ranking Poll
by Ronald L. Feinman
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Jun 18, 2021
The Eighty-Year Cycle of Existential National Crisis: How Will This One End?
by Ronald L. Feinman
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Jun 4, 2021
Governing With an Evenly Divided Senate is a Rare Tightrope Act
by Ronald L. Feinman
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May 26, 2021
Presidential-Vice Presidential Relationships Aren't Always What They Seem
by Ronald L. Feinman
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May 14, 2021
Obama's Reputation With Scholars and the Public Likely to Rise
by Ronald L. Feinman
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May 1, 2021
The Connection Between Joe Biden and Robert F. Kennedy
by Ronald L. Feinman
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Apr 16, 2021
More Senators Who Made an Impact, Despite First Being Appointed (Not Elected)
by Ronald L. Feinman
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Apr 9, 2021
Senators who Made an Impact, Despite First being Appointed (not Elected)
by Ronald L. Feinman
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Mar 17, 2021
Fate and Fortune in Presidential Elections
by Ronald L. Feinman
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Mar 5, 2021
Presidents Who Look Better or Worse by Comparison
by Ronald L. Feinman
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Feb 22, 2021
Congressional Leadership Experience and the Presidency
by Ronald L. Feinman
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Feb 12, 2021
State Governors and the Presidency
by Ronald L. Feinman
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Jan 29, 2021
From The Senate to the Presidency: Many Try, Few Succeed
by Ronald L. Feinman
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Jan 11, 2021
Humphrey and Biden: One Presidential Scholar's Two Political Heroes
by Ronald L. Feinman
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Dec 3, 2020
These Six Lost Presidential Elections, but Found Other Ways to Serve the Nation
by Ronald L. Feinman
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Nov 11, 2020
Who Will Form the Biden Cabinet?
by Ronald L. Feinman
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Nov 8, 2020
Biden's Years of Experience in Public Service are Second to One
by Ronald L. Feinman
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