Michael R. Beschloss

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1. Stephen E. Ambrose

   Author of Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869, To America : Personal Reflections of an Historian

2. Michael R. Beschloss

   Author of The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945, Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson's Secret White House Tapes, 1964-1965, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963

3. Robert Dallek

   Author of An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, Lone Star Rising, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945

4. David McCullough

   Author of 1776, Truman, The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914

5. Doris Kearns Goodwin

   Author of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream

6. Joseph J. Ellis

   Author of Founding Brothers, His Excellency: George Washington, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

7. Edmund Morris

   Author of Theodore Rex, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Dutch : A Memoir of Ronald Reagan

8. David Halberstam

   Author of The Best and the Brightest, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals

9. Rick Atkinson

   Author of An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, The Day of Battle, Crusade; the Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War

10. Jon Meacham

    Author of American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship, American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation

11. Bob Woodward

    Author of Plan of Attack, The Final Days, Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987

12. Robert A. Caro

    Author of Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

13. Joseph E. Persico

    Author of Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage, Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day, 1918, World War I and Its Violent Climax

14. Seymour M. Hersh

    Author of The Dark Side of Camelot, The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy, Target Is Destroyed

15. James Patterson

    Author of Kill Alex Cross, The Christmas Wedding, Private: #1 Suspect

16. Theodore H. White

    Author of The Making of the President 1960, The Making of the President 1964, The Making of the President 1972

17. Gordon W. Prange

    Author of At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor, Miracle at Midway

18. Jay Winik

    Author of April 1865: The Month That Saved America, The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800

19. William Manchester

    Author of American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964, The death of a President, November 20-November 25, 1963

20. James Chace

    Author of 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs--The Election that Changed the Country, Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World