{"id":533570,"date":"2025-10-29T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/unscripted-with-h-w-brands\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T14:00:00","slug":"unscripted-with-h-w-brands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/unscripted-with-h-w-brands\/","title":{"rendered":"Unscripted with H.W. Brands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of <em><strong>Unscriptify<\/strong><\/em>, we sit down with acclaimed <em>historian<\/em> and <em>author<\/em> <strong>H. W. Brands<\/strong> for a candid conversation about the dilemmas that define U.S. presidents \u2014 from <em>Lincoln\u2019s<\/em> moral tightrope to <em>Nixon\u2019s<\/em> downfall, and the ongoing debates surrounding modern figures like Donald Trump. <\/p>\n<p>We explore how history judges leaders, why controversy often accompanies power, and what it truly means to leave a lasting legacy in American politics. It\u2019s unscripted, insightful, and as always, a little provocative \u2014 exactly what <em>Unscriptify<\/em> does best.<\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of Unscriptify, we sit down with acclaimed historian and author H. W. Brands for a candid conversation about the dilemmas that define U.S. presidents \u2014 from Lincoln\u2019s moral tightrope to Nixon\u2019s downfall, and the ongoing debates surrounding modern figures like Donald Trump. We explore how history judges leaders, why controversy often accompanies&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":324799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[450],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ikuzounscripted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}