Craig Bruce Smith

Craig Bruce Smith is a historian and the author of American Honor: The Creation of the Nation’s Ideals During the Revolutionary Era. He is currently working on The Greatest Man in the World: A Global History of George Washington.

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What Schwarzenegger Knows About George Washington
The former California governor is the latest to recognize that the most remarkable thing about the first president was not how he exercised power, but how he yielded it.
Craig Bruce Smith
July 7, 2025
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