Author Talmage Boston Will Serve as Our Next Guest Curator
The Raab Collection is pleased to announce its next Guest Curator: Talmage Boston, an internationally renowned attorney, speaker, and author, most recently of How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons From Our Top Presidents.
Raab’s Guest Curators program, relaunched in 2024 in celebration of its 35th anniversary as dealers of important historical documents and autographs, invites prominent authors, historians, and leaders to curate a virtual exhibition of documents that stand out as personally inspiring or reflect their scholarly interests.
Talmage Boston is a well-known figure among leading historians as an author, speaker, and onstage interviewer. His work has been endorsed by David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jon Meacham, Douglas Brinkley, Annette-Gordon-Reed, Evan Thomas, and H.W. Brands, as well as many other esteemed presidential biographers. Boston is the author of Cross-Examining History (foreword by Ken Burns), Raising the Bar (foreword by former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh), Baseball and the Baby Boomer (foreword by Frank Deford), and 1939: Baseball’s Tipping Point (foreword by John Grisham).
He is also one of the most highly recognized lawyers in Texas, having been chosen for three major statewide awards in the last four years by the Texas Bar Foundation and the State Bar of Texas’ Litigation Section. Boston has been named a “Texas Super Lawyer” by Thompson Reuters every year since 2003, and among the “Best Lawyers in America” every year since 2013. He is the only lawyer to receive a “Presidential Citation” from eight different presidents of the State Bar of Texas for outstanding service to the State Bar.
Working as both a full-time commercial litigator and a full-time historian, Boston’s varied experience and notable achievements in both fields made him uniquely qualified to write How the Best Did It due to his knowledge of history, his skills as a writer, and his vast experience in business and law. In November 2023, Boston was recognized by the Dallas Historical Society as “The History Maker of the Year” in the field of promoting history in North Texas.
Praise for How the Best Did It:
“No president has been more successful than FDR in moving public sentiment forward one step at a time. And no one has been more successful in analyzing the secret of that success than Talmage Boston. His terrific chapter on FDR provides a riveting account of the critical role Roosevelt’s rhetorical skill played in saving our democracy.” —Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
“Talmage Boston has entered the field of leadership studies with a head full of steam and a barrel full of fresh ideas. His investigation into Theodore Roosevelt’s distinguished record as U.S. president is deeply illuminating and highly recommended!” —Douglas Brinkley, presidential historian and bestselling author
“Thomas Jefferson was one the most effective American leaders of his time, creating a political party that dominated American politics for more than a quarter of a century. With great insight and clear writing, Talmage Boston brings Jefferson to life as the talented leader who shaped the course of early American society.” —Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian
About the Guest Curators Program at Raab
Several times a year, The Raab Collection invites authors, historians, and thought leaders to choose a selection of documents currently for sale with The Raab Collection and create a themed ‘exhibit’ with commentary by the Guest Curator. They share their experience and expertise, motivations and passions, bringing history to life in ways only they can. Previous Guest Curators have included Stewart McLaurin, president of the White House Historical Association; Edward F. O’Keefe, CEO of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation; and author Douglas Brinkley.
At Raab, we are often on the front line of historical discovery. Many of the pieces we sell are unpublished or were acquired directly from the descendants or heirs of historical figures and collectors, often unseen by the general public or the research community before. This offers each Guest Curator robust and interesting material to highlight.
The exhibit curated by Talmage Boston will debut on the Raab website next week.
