This historian and author’s latest book, Making the Presidency: John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic, was published by Oxford University Press in September 2024. Her other books include the award-winning The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution, and the co-edited Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture. Chervinsky currently serves as Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library, and she was a historian at the White House Historical Association. She regularly writes for publications like the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, USA Today, CNN.com, Washington Monthly, and the Washington Post, and is a frequent presidential commentator on national TV and radio. Lindsay M. Chervinsky was interviewed by fellow biographer and BIO member John (Jack) A. Farrell in the Washington Presidential Library.