How the Best Did It takes the leadership lessons gained from our greatest presidents and makes them instructive today for all leaders who seek to enhance their performance.

Based on Talmage Boston’s sound evaluations, which have been endorsed by America’s leading presidential historians, every chapter ends with a self-examination questionnaire that allows the reader to evaluate his or her own leadership skills.

Boston is a well-known figure among leading historians as an author, speaker, and onstage interviewer. His work has been endorsed by David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jon Meacham, Douglas Brinkley, Annette Gordon-Reed, and H.W. Brands, as well as many other esteemed presidential biographers. He will be in conversation with Evan Thomas, the author of nine books, including New York Times bestsellers John Paul Jones and Sea of Thunder. Thomas was a writer, correspondent, and editor for 33 years at Time and Newsweek.