Lesson #1 for Obama: The Half Step Rule (Timing, Timing, Timing) [9 min 37 sec]

Each year, the Hauenstein Center invites at least one presidential historian or political scientist to Grand Valley to present his or her “course” on the American presidency. Here is your opportunity to enter the classrooms of renowned presidential historian H. W. Brands.

H. W. Brands, professor of history at the University of Texas, visited the Hauenstein Center as a scholar in residence in March 2008. He is author of two dozen books, including biographies of Benjamin Franklin (2000), Andrew Jackson (2005), Theodore Roosevelt (2007), Woodrow Wilson (2003), and Franklin Roosevelt (forthcoming).

Here is the first of his “Six Lessons for the Next President.”