His main area of research is on the Lincoln assassination. Swanson is an Abraham Lincoln scholar and is a member of the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. He serves on the advisory council of the Ford's Theatre Society.
He has held a number of government and think-tank posts in Washington, D.C., including at the United States Department of Justice. Swanson also has degrees in history and law from the UCLA and the University of Chicago. Swanson graduated from the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in history and from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law with a J.D. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the American Heritage foundation and in the past has appeared on C-SPAN on behalf of the Koch-affiliated libertarian CATO Institute think tank. Swanson (born February 12, 1959) is an American author and historian famous for his New York Times best-seller Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer, focusing on the biography of John Wilkes Boothe and his plot to kill Lincoln and other cabinet members. University of California, Los Angeles (J.D.)
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