An Ordinary Man

An Ordinary Man (2023) is the complete biography of Gerald R. Ford, the thirty-eighth president of the United States. Under his leadership, America navigated its gravest constitutional crisis since the Civil War and confronted its most profound economic slump since the Great Depression. While Ford can be seen as an “accidental president,” historian Richard Norton Smith argues that his accomplishments were numerous and significant.

• History buffs 
• Politicos interested post-Watergate America
• Fans of in-depth biographical works 

Richard Norton Smith is an American historian and author. He is the former director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and a regular guest on C-Span and PBS NewsHour. He has written numerous critically acclaimed studies of American political figures and presidents, including the Pulitzer-shortlisted Thomas E. Dewey and His Times and Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation. Smith was a close friend of Gerald R. Ford.