Scott Porch (
@scottporch) is a journalist and book critic who writes frequently about American history, literary history, and digital media. He wrote a profile of Robert Caro for
The Daily Beast (
“The Power Broker Turns 40: How Robert Caro Wrote a Masterpiece”) and a profile of Teddy White for
Politico Magazine (
“The Book That Changed Campaigns Forever”). He has interviewed Lincoln biographer
Harold Holzer, playwright
Tony Kushner, psychologist
Steven Pinker,
Meet the Press moderator
Chuck Todd, and legal scholar
Cass R. Sunstein. He is writing a book about the fracturing of the civil rights movement and the rise of the feminist movement in the 1960s and early 1970s.