Brian Lamb

Brian Lamb co-founded C-SPAN and became known as a broadcaster and interviewer who keeps attention on authors, public officials, and historical evidence. Who’s Buried in Grant’s Tomb? grew from visits to the burial places of every American president and from C-SPAN’s long engagement with presidential history. Published by PublicAffairs with C-SPAN, the book includes contributions from historians Richard Norton Smith and Douglas Brinkley. It treats gravesites as starting points for concise accounts of presidents’ lives, deaths, last words, memorials, and changing public reputations. Lamb’s Booknotes program had already made sustained nonfiction interviews central to C-SPAN’s cultural work, and material from those conversations informed several books. Who’s Buried in Grant’s Tomb? uses a lighter question-and-answer premise without abandoning documentary purpose. The result connects travel, biography, and civic history, reflecting Lamb’s preference for direct inquiry and for giving readers enough factual context to pursue the subject further.