Mark K. Updegrove

Mark K. Updegrove is a presidential historian and the author of six books on the presidency, including The Last Republicans: Inside the Extraordinary Relationship Between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush and Second Acts: Presidential Lives and Legacies After the White House. He serves as the president & CEO of the LBJ Foundation, the presidential historian for ABC News, and the host of the PBS series Live from the LBJ Library with Mark Updegrove. Earlier in his career, he was the director of the LBJ Presidential Library and the publisher of Newsweek. He has interviewed seven US presidents.