Stephen Knott

In 2001, he joined the research faculty at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, conducting oral history interviews for the Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, William J. Clinton, and George W. Bush oral history projects,^[1] as well as teaching in UVA's Department of Politics.^[2] He also helped launch the Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project in December 2004,^[3] where he was responsible for conducting the bulk of the interviews between that date and the summer of 2007. He became a professor of National Security Affairs at the United States Naval War College in July 2007 until his retirement in December 2022. Knott is the author or co-author of ten books dealing with the American presidency and the history of the early American Republic, as well as essays and op-eds in newspapers including The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal and numerous academic journals. He has delivered many public lectures, a number of which have appeared on CSPAN.^[4]

• Coming to Terms with John F. Kennedy, The University Press of Kansas, October 2022^[5][6]
• Editor, American Foreign Policy to 1899: Core Documents, Ashbrook Press, October 2021.
• The Lost Soul of the American Presidency: The Decline into Demagoguery and the Prospects for Renewal, The University Press of Kansas, November 2019.^[7][8][9]
• Washington and Hamilton: The Alliance That Forged America, Co-author, Sourcebooks, September 2015.^[10][11]
• The Evolution of the Executive and Executive Power in the American Republic, Co-author, Foreign Policy Research Institute E-Book, November 2014.
• Rush to Judgment: George W. Bush, the War on Terror, and His Critics, The University Press of Kansas, March 2012.^[12][13][14]
• At Reagan’s Side: Insiders’ Recollections from Sacramento to the White House,  Co-author, Rowman and Littlefield, May 2009.
• The Reagan Years, Co-author, Facts on File, April 2005.
• Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth, The University Press of Kansas, February 2002.^[15][16][17]
• Secret and Sanctioned: Covert Operations and the American Presidency, Oxford University Press, April 1996.^[18][19]