Putting the Bush Presidency into Historic Perspective [37min]

Yale Professor Stephen Skowronek says there have been presidents like George W. Bush before -- he calls them orthodox innovators. But then things tend to go wrong. Professor Skowronek and author James Mann take a historical look at the Bush presidency. Guests: Stephen Skowronek, professor of political and social science at Yale University; his article on the Bush presidency appeared in the December issue of the journal Perspectives on Politics; and James Mann, author of Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet and author in residence at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.