Joyce Appleby is a professor of history at UCLA. Specializing in the study of early America, she is the author of Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans and Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical
Imagination. She lives in Los Angeles, California.
Author of:
Thomas Jefferson
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Louis Auchincloss is a highly renowned novelist, literary critic, and historian. The author of more than fifty books, including The Rector of Justin, The House of Five Talents, and The Atonement, he is a former president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Author of:
Theodore Roosevelt
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Jean H. Baker is a professor of history at Goucher College. She is the author of several books, including The Stevensons and Mary Todd Lincoln, and is at work on a book about the suffrage movement. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
Author of:
James Buchanan
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H. W. Brands is distinguished professor of history at Texas A&M University. His previous books include the Pulitzer Prize finalist The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, The Age of Gold, and a
biography of Teddy Roosevelt. He lives in Austin, Texas.
Author of:
Woodrow Wilson
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Douglas Brinkley is the director of the Theodore Roosevelt Center and professor of history at Tulane University. He is the author of biographies of Henry Ford, Jimmy Carter, Dean Acheson, James Forrestal, John Kerry, and Rosa Parks, and his most recent books include The Great Deluge, The Boys of Pointe du Hoc, and Tour of Duty. He is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and American Heritage and a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic Monthly. He lives in New Orleans with his wife and children.
Author of:
Gerald R. Ford
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A Rhodes Scholar and a decorated army officer, Josiah Bunting III served in Vietnam and was superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute for eight years. He is the author of the novels All Loves Excelling, The Lionheads, The Advent of Frederick Giles, and An Education for Our Time. Bunting is also a classical pianist and a long-distance runner. He lives in Newport, Rhode Island.
Author of:
Ulysses S. Grant
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James MacGregor Burns is the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Political Science
Emeritus at Williams College and a senior scholar at the Jepson School of
Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. He is the author of numerous
books, including Transforming Leadership, Roosevelt: The Lion and the
Fox, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom.
Susan Dunn is Professor of Humanities at Williams College. She is the
author of many books, including Sister Revolutions and The Three
Roosevelts (with James MacGregor Burns). Burns and Dunn live in
Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Author of:
George Washington
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Charles W. Calhoun is a professor of history at East Carolina University. A former National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, Calhoun is the author or editor of four books, including The Gilded Age, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. He lives in Greenville, North Carolina.
Author of:
Benjamin Harrison
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Robert Dallek is the author of several bestselling presidential histories, including Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power; An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963; and the classic two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson, Lone Star Rising and Flawed Giant. He has taught at Columbia, Oxford, UCLA, Boston University, and Dartmouth, and has won the Bancroft Prize, among numerous other awards for scholarship and teaching. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Author of:
Harry S. Truman
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John W. Dean served as Richard Nixon's White House counsel for a thousand days. He is the author of two books recounting his days in the Nixon administration, Blind Ambition and Lost Honor, as well as Unmasking Deep Throat. A native of Marion, Ohio, he lives in Beverly Hills, California.
Author of:
Warren G. Harding
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John Patrick Diggins is distinguished professor of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of
numerous books, including On Hallowed Ground, The Proud Decades,
The Lost Soul of American Politics, The Rise and Fall of the American Left, and
Max Weber: Politics and the Spirit of Tragedy. He lives in New York City.
Author of:
John Adams
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Elizabeth Drew is the award-winning author of thirteen previous books, including Washington Journal, Politics and Money, Whatever It Takes: The Real Struggle for Political Power in America, and The Corruption of American Politics. She is a regular political correspondent for The New York Review of Books and the former Washington correspondent for The New Yorker. She lives and works in Washington, D.C.
Author of:
Richard M. Nixon
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John S. D. Eisenhower
is a retired brigadier general, a former U.S. ambassador to Belgium, and the
author of numerous works of military history and biography, including General
Ike: A Personal Reminiscence; They Fought at Anzio; Yanks: The
Epic Story of the American Army in World War I; and So Far from God: The
U.S. War with Mexico, 1846–1848. He lives in Maryland.
Author of:
Zachary Taylor
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Henry F. Graff is a professor emeritus of history at Columbia University, where he taught his pioneering seminar on the presidency. The author of The Tuesday Cabinet and the reference work The Presidents, he is a frequent commentator on radio and television. Graff lives in New York.
Author of:
Grover Cleveland
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David Greenberg is a professor of history and media studies at Rutgers University, a columnist for Slate, and the author of the prizewinning Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image. A former acting editor of The New Republic, he has written for many scholarly and popular publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. He lives in New York City.
Author of:
Calvin Coolidge
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Gary Hart represented Colorado in the U.S. Senate from 1975 to 1987. He is the author of fourteen books, and has taught at Yale, the University of California, and Oxford University, where he earned a doctor of philosophy degree in politics. He was co-chair of the U.S. Commission on National Security for the 21st Century
and is currently senior counsel to the multinational law firm Coudert Brothers. He resides with his family in Kittredge, Colorado.
Author of:
James Monroe
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Roy Jenkins was the author of twenty-one books, including the New York Times bestsellers Churchill and Gladstone, the latter of which won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. Active in British politics for half a century, he entered the House of Commons as a Labour member in 1948 and subsequently served as minister of aviation, home secretary, and chancellor of the Exchequer. In 1977—81 he was president of the European Commission. In 1987 he became chancellor of Oxford University and took his seat in the House of Lords as Lord Jenkins of Hill head. He also served as president of the Royal Society of Literature. He died in January 2003.
Author of:
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Zachary Karabell is the author of several works of American and world history, including The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election and Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal. He has taught at Harvard and Dartmouth, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Newsweek. He lives in New York City.
Author of:
Chester Alan Arthur
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William E. Leuchtenburg, a professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a noted authority on twentieth-century American history. A winner of both the Bancroft and Parkman prizes, he is the author of numerous books on the New Deal. In 2008, he was chosen as the first recipient of the Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Award for Distinguished Writing in American History of Enduring Public Significance.
Author of:
Herbert Hoover
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Gary May is a professor of history at the University of Delaware. The author of three books, including the critically acclaimed The Informant: The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo, he lives in Newark, Delaware.
Author of:
John Tyler
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George S. McGovern represented South Dakota in the United States Senate from 1963 to 1981 and was the Democratic nominee for president in 1972. He was a decorated bomber pilot in World War II, after which he earned his Ph.D. in American history and government at Northwestern University. A recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, he lives in Mitchell, South Dakota.
Author of:
Abraham Lincoln
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Timothy Naftali is the director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, having previously served as director of the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia. He is the coauthor of Khrushchev’s Cold War and One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958–1964, and the author of Blind Spot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism. He lives in Los Angeles.
Author of:
George H. W. Bush
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Kevin Phillips has been a political and economic commentator for more than three decades. He is currently a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio and also writes for Harper's Magazine and Time. He is the author of Wealth and Democracy, The Cousins' Wars, and The Emerging Republican Majority, among many other books. He lives in Litchfield, Connecticut.
Author of:
William McKinley
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Robert V. Remini is professor emeritus of history and the humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Called the foremost Jacksonian scholar of our time by The New York Times, he is the recipient of a National Book Award. His most recent hook is Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars.
Author of:
John Quincy Adams
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Ira Rutkow is a clinical professor of surgery at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He also holds a doctorate of public health from Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Bleeding Blue and Gray: Civil War Surgery and the Evolution of American Medicine and Surgery: An Illustrated History, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. He and his wife divide their time between New York City and the Catskills.
Author of:
James A. Garfield
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John Seigenthaler is the founder of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt
University. An administrative assistant to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy,
he was an award-winning journalist for the Nashville Tennessean for
forty-three years, finally serving as the paper's editor, publisher, and CEO,
and was named founding editorial director of USA Today in 1982. He lives
in Nashville, Tennessee.
Author of:
James K. Polk
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Hans L. Trefousse, distinguished professor emeritus of history at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is a specialist in the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction. He is the author of
biographies of leading figures of the period as well as works on the Pearl
Harbor attack.
Author of:
Rutherford B. Hayes
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For over thirty years, Tom Wicker covered American politics at The New York Times, where he began writing the Times's "In the Nation" column. He is the author of several hooks, including One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream and JFK & LBJ, as well as two novels.
Author of:
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Ted Widmer is the director of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. He is the author of Young America and the co-author, with Alan Brinkley, of Campaigns. Widmer served as senior adviser to President Clinton and director of speechwriting at the National Security Council. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Author of:
Martin Van Buren
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Sean Wilentz, a professor of history at Princeton University, is the author or editor of eight previous books, including Chants Democratic and The Rise of American Democracy. He has also written on contemporary politics and history for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, and other publications. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Author of:
Andrew Jackson
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Garry Wills, adjunct professor of history at
Northwestern University, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Lincoln at Gettysburg. He is also the author of Saint Augustine and Papal Sin.
Author of:
James Madison
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